Hat-trick for Bin Ghadayer; Doubles for Ffrench and Bouresly at Jebel Ali on Friday

By Duane Fonseca

Dubai: The new year 2021 appears to have increased the riches of Emirati trainers with Salem bin Ghadayer registering a hat-trick at Jebel Ali Friday, a day after his compatriot Ali Rashid Al Rayhi scored thrice at Meydan.

Stitching success: Salem bin Ghadayer's Tailor's Row in the hands of Royston Ffrench was unstoppable in the afternoon feature at Jebel Ali Racecourse (ERA)

Xavier Ziani helped open Bin Ghadayer’s account when he took the 1950m handicap with Miracle Maker, who thumped the opposition to win by an enormous five lengths, while Royston Ffrench scored twice for the Fazza Racing Stables conditioner.

Ffrench, who is Bin Ghadayer’s first choice rider, won the afternoon feature over 1800m with Tailor’s Row, who made all to win by two and a quarter lengths from Musabbeh Al Mheiri’s Dark Of Night with Antonio Fresu up. Bin Ghadayer also saddled the third in the race Untold Secret by Ziani.

Ffrench then won the penultimate race on the card, with Hurry Up who lived up to his name and took the 1200m maiden sprint by a big four and a quarter length margin ahead of stable companion Meshakel with Ziani up. A head back in third was Nicholas Bachalard’s Fresu driven Nibraas.

Imprison (ERA)

Al Suhooj (ERA)

Miracle Maker (ERA)

Hurry Up (ERA)

Mazagran (ERA)

Adrie de Vries brought Bouresly a first success on the card in the 1400m handicap with Alla Mahlak who won by a length and a quarter from Bachalard’s Top Clearance with Fabrice Veron up, and the Kuwaiti handler grabbed a second in the card closing 1200m handicap with Imprison ridden by Veron.

Satish Seemar and Tadhg O’Shea combined to land the 1600m maiden with Mazagran, who won by three lengths from Helal Alalawi’s Arabian Moon with Pat Cosgrave in the saddle. A further five and a quarter lengths in arrears was Seemar’s other charge First Emblem ridden by Richard Mullen.

The only Purebred Arabian contest on the card, which got the afternoon underway, was a handicap contested over a 1400m trip and won by Khalifa Al Neyadi’s Al Suhooj piloted by Saif Al Balushi. Second went to Ernst Oertel’s O’Shea ridden AF Musannef, while Irfan Ellahi’s Jap Hadad took third in the hands of Bernardo Pinheiro.