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DUBAI - An action-packed one day event was held at Emirates Equestrian Centre (EEC), near Bab al Shams on Friday, January 29.

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ABU DHABI - Royal Class under Tadhg O’Shea, lived up to his name and got home better in the 1600m Bibi De Carrere Handicap Purebred Arabians second race at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club here on Sunday evening.

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ABU DHABI - Sunday’s Abu Dhabi fixture is a six-race card with one Thoroughbred race, a 2,200m handicap, which concludes proceedings, a press release said.

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DUBAI — Jet Express, ridden by Royston Ffrench, maintained his unbeaten run to dethrone holder Golden Arrow under Pat Smullen in a close finish in the Jebel Ali Mile up the hill here on Friday afternoon.

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DUBAI - His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, attended the opening night of the Dubai International Racing Carnival at the Meydan Racecourse on Thursday.

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DUBAI - UAE jockey Ahmed Ajtebi fell from his horse as the riders left the stalls in the fifth race at the new Meydan Racecourse on Thursday. Jockey Richard Mullen said he saw Ajtebi falling down from the Godolphin horse Desuetude besides him and the horse walked on him.

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DUBAI - Mohammed Abdul Nasser Al Khayat, Commercial Director of Meydan, said they are expecting to get back a greater part of their investments in the project within a very short period of time through direct and indirect revenues.

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DUBAI - Jet Express, ridden by leading jockey Royston Ffrench, takes on a quality field of UAE-based runners in the 1600m Jebel Ali Mile, the Dh 500,000 Derrinstown feature of the Jebel Ali Racecourse on Friday.

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The first ever race at Meydan, the Group 1 Maktoum Challenge for Purebred Arabians was won in great style by No Risk Al Maury, owned by Shaikh Hamdan.

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