Emirates Racing Authority

All 30 lots offered in Tuesday's Tattersalls Online Emirates Racing Authority Jebel Ali Online Sale sold for an aggregate of AED2,420,300 (around €571,000), led by Mawhoob (War Of Will), who was purchased for AED320,000 (€76,000) by Sayed Hashish. The third auction hosted by Tattersalls Online on behalf of the Emirates Racing Authority (ERA), the catalogue featured a draft consigned exclusively by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Jebel Ali Stables in Dubai. Over 90 registered bidders from 10 countries competed throughout the auction, resulting in a 100% clearance...

Tattersalls Online and the Emirates Racing Authority will continue their partnership by hosting the Online Jebel Ali Horses in Training Sale on June 5-9, with the catalogue now available to view here. Comprising 30 lots from His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Jebel Ali Stables, the catalogue features talented performers such as Keffaaf (Adlerflug), the winner of last year's G3 Al Khail Trophy. The seven-year-old boasts a current Timeform rating of 112 and was last seen finishing sixth in the G2 Dubai City of Gold Stakes behind multiple...

Two-time winner Masai Moon (Siyouni) (lot 154) topped the Tattersalls Online Emirates Racing Authority Sale when selling for AED1.1 million (£226,300) to Bhupat Seemar's Zabeel Stables. The four-year-old gelding has won twice in the UK and has finished second in his last two starts at Meydan for Godolphin and Charlie Appleby. He is a grandson of listed winner, G1 Irish Oaks second and G1 Oaks third Melikah (Lammtarra). Horses from Charlie Appleby's stable made up the next three lots, with Indian Springs (Too Darn Hot) (lot 137) hammering at AED880,000...

The first edition of the Emirates Racing Authority (ERA) Online Sale will be held under the conditions of the ERA and hosted on the Tattersalls Online platform from November 24-27. Bidding will open from 12 p.m. (GMT) on Monday, November 24 and close beginning at 10 a.m. (GMT) on Thursday, November 27. The unique online event is set to feature 15 lots including 13 Thoroughbreds and two Purebred Arabians and has been supported by leading stables and trainers with drafts featuring from Dubai Racing Club, Michael Costa, Ibrahim Al Hadrami,...

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- It has been a circuitous first three decades of life for Pat Comerford, from big city Melbourne to Alice Springs smack dab in the middle of Australia and from studying in Central Missouri to New Zealand to the bright lights of Dubai. At age 28, Comerford is set to call his first Dubai World Cup meeting, having cut his teeth on the mic in the Northern Territories almost by accident. Called up into a similar role at the Singapore Turf Club--a job that has proved...

Royal Ascot and Dubai Carnival winners feature among 48 lots set to be offered by Godolphin at the 2024 Emirates Racing Authority (ERA) Racing in Dubai Sale, which will be staged at Meydan Racecourse on Tuesday, March 26, four days before the Dubai World Cup meeting. Godolphin have sold over 450 horses at the ERA Racing in Dubai Sale since it was introduced in December 2015. They include the former Charlie Appleby trainee North America (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who later won at the top level for Satish Seemar having been...

Friday marks the first edition of the Festive Friday card at Meydan, featuring two group races, three listed races and AED4.5 million in prize-money across the nine-race stand. Returning to the scene of his 2023 G2 Godolphin Mile victory is Isolate (Mark Valeski), who will step out in the AED1-million G2 Al Maktoum Mile for trainer Doug Watson. Tyler Gaffalione will fly in for the race from the States. "That was a great day and he's moving better this year than he did last year," said trainer Doug Watson, who...

The tracks of the Emirates Racing Association (ERA) will stage a total of 61 meetings in 2023-2024 after the fixture list was given the stamp of approval by His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Presidential Court and Chairman of the ERA. The racing season in the Emirates begins Oct. 28 at Al Ain Racecourse and continues the following day at Sharjah Longines Racecourse. Jebel Ali Racecourse will open its doors for the first time on Nov. 4, and racing at...

The first edition of the ERA Racing 'Oscars' Awards will be held at Caesars Palace Dubai, Bluewaters Island, on Sunday, Oct. 23. Beginning at 6 p.m. local time, the invitation only event will recognise Champion Jockey, Tadhg O'Shea, Champion Trainer, Bhupat Seemar, Champion Owner, Khalid Khalifa Al Nabooda, Champion Apprentice, Saif Al Balushi, as well as several other yet-to-be-revealed winners. There will also be the Pat Smullen Award for Ride of the Season, as well as the Rising Star Award, which will recognize the achievements and hard work of a...

Western Writer (Ire) (Shamardal) (lot 42) stole the show at the Emirates Racing Authority Racing in Dubai Sale on Saturday, bringing AED1.8 million (£429,849/€490,499/$490,129) from Athbah Racing. A dual winner, the 3-year-old gelding counts G2 Park Hill S. heroine Echoes In Eternity (Ire) (Spinning World) as his second dam. Second on the leader board at the end of the day, was lot 27, Thundersquall (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). One of six purchased outright by Satish Seemar, the placed gelding brought AED600,000. His dam is the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas and G1...

The Racing in Dubai September Sale, conducted by the Emirates Racing Authority in conjunction with Tattersalls, will be held on Sept. 17. Held at the Meydan quarantine facility at NOFA Stables, the sale will start at 6:45 p.m. local time. All horses will be available for viewing on Sept. 15 and 16 from 8-10 a.m. and again from 4-6 p.m. each day. Sheikh Rashid bin Dalmook Al Maktoum, Vice Chairman of the Emirates Racing Authority said, "We are delighted to offer some exceptional bloodstock for the current ownership base, and...

Trainer Satish Seemar has had his license temporarily suspended by the Emirates Racing Authority Stewards due to circumstances surrounding his association with owner Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov, the Head of the Chechen Republic, was added to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office Of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)'s list for his record of serious human rights abuses in 2017. Seemar, who trained the 2018 G1 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 victor North America (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) for Kadyrov, was put on the list due to his connection with Kadyrov on Dec....