{"id":3739,"date":"2022-08-08T17:45:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:45:46","slug":"great-britain-ireland-secure-home-win-in-dubai-duty-free-shergar-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/sports\/2022\/08\/08\/news\/3739\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain & Ireland secure home win in Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Britain & Ireland Team lift the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Trophy. (DDF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Broadcasting News Corporation : Great Britain & Ireland beat a strong international field to claim the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday. The home team finished with 132 points at the 2022 renewal of the world\u2019s premier international jockeys\u2019 competition. The Ladies, captained by the competition\u2019s all-time most successful rider Hayley Turner, put down an early marker when Joanna Mason took the opener aboard the William Haggas-trained Amanzoe with a ride that earned her the Dubai Duty Free Ride of the Day award and initiated a treble for the Newmarket trainer. However, last year\u2019s winners could finish only second in the overall competition with 81 points ahead of Rest of the World with 72 points and Europe in fourth place with 51 points. Winning trainer William Haggas set the tone for the afternoon. \u201cI like this event because it is global,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why it is so successful.\u201d Haggas is challenging for the British Champion Trainers\u2019 title this year. \u201cMy late father-in-law Lester Piggott was one of the breeders of Amanzoe and we\u2019ll have to look for black type now that she has won this competitive Stakes.\u201d Haggas\u2019s observation about the meeting\u2019s global reputation was underlined in the next race, the seven furlongs Dubai Duty Free Full of Surprises Stakes. Neil Callan, recently returned from 10 successful years in Hong Kong, and who had ridden a Newmarket treble the night before, drove home Orbaan who had made his way down to Ascot from the northern stable of David O\u2019Meara. \u201cI\u2019ve ridden against \u2026 Christophe Lemaire and Kerrin McEvoy (of the Rest of the World Team) and Frankie Dettori (Europe team captain) around the world,\u201d said Callan. \u201cIt\u2019s great to renew old friendships, though out on the track we\u2019re as competitive for our teams as we are as individuals.\u201d The first two races on the eight-race card were worth \u00a350,000 ($60,000) which stepped up to $91,000 for the remaining six, bringing total prize money for the Dubai Duty Free-sponsored event to $667,000. The third event, the Dubai Duty Free Dash over the minimum trip of five furlongs, was won by Manaccan, the only three-year-old in the race and a horse with a bright future. Manaccan had the inestimable services of the legendary Turner. Hayley\u2019s father was there to greet her returning to the winner\u2019s circle with which she is so familiar. When Turner won the Holyrood House sprint at Royal Ascot she had Manaccan back in fifth. \u201cAdam Kirby rode him then and he advised me on the best tactics to win today,\u201d said the grateful jockey. Grateful too was Jamie Spencer for his first ride on moody The Maxwecan in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Stayers run over two miles. Though hardly sighted this year, The Maxwecan was a winner over Ascot\u2019s course and distance three years ago.
\nThere was a bunch finish for the minor placings and even with the introduction of different coloured caps for the runners at the meeting a couple of the runners could not be separated. That complicated the scoring but left the Great Britain & Ireland team with a healthy lead. After the fourth race, halfway through the card, the scoreboard was beginning to take shape with Great Britain and Ireland stretching into an 18-point lead over the Rest of the World who in turn led The Ladies with Europe trailing. That lead was extended by the victory of Pride Of Priory, a second on the day for trainer William Haggas and first for jockey Kieren Shoemark in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Challenge over the classic distance of a mile and a half. It extended the Great Britain & Ireland team\u2019s lead to a 31-point gap over the Rest of the World. \u201cWe love to support this event,\u201d said Haggas. \u201cWe had the German jockey Rene Piechulek riding for us in an earlier race and though he didn\u2019t win, he came in and gave us a proper run down on the horse. If we have runners in Germany I will be on the phone to him.\u201d
\nThe Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Mile featured the highest-rated horses of the day and was won by Canadian star Emma-Jayne Wilson on Jungle Cove for Irish trainer Jessica Harrington, who also owns the five-year-old and who flew over for the event, giving The Ladies some hope of challenging Great Britain & Ireland. News collected from ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broadcasting News Corporation : Great Britain & Ireland beat a strong international field to claim the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday. The home team finished with 132 points at the 2022 renewal of the world\u2019s premier international jockeys\u2019 competition. The Ladies, captained by the competition\u2019s all-time most successful rider Hayley …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}