TAIF: A combined SR1,000,000 ($266,000) is on offer over two races for two-year-olds at King Khalid Racecourse this weekend as the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia Contributions for locally bred animals sold at auction in 2024 take centre stage.
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The sixth and seventh 1,400-metre races on Friday each carry a purse of $133,000. The latter, for colts and geldings, features a field of 13 runners, with the idea being to give horses sold at the November JCSA Yearling sale the chance to earn prizemoney.
Among the 13 is the newcomer Alsultan Seven who goes to post under champion jockey Adel Al-Fouraidi for trainer Abdullah Al-Nahhabi, with Fahad Saad and the powerful Red Stable of Prince Faisal bin Khaled bin Abdulaziz represented by the twice-raced Moa’arekhom.
An even bigger field of 16 has been declared for the filles’ event with Al-Fouraidi again in action aboard the Ahmed Al-Shaia-trained Basmat Almuhamadih, who was sixth on her debut earlier this month, while Alexis Moreno teams up with trainer Gaith Al-Ghaith and the once-raced Taghneik.
