(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Irish jockey Ian Queally rode Omani horse Karar owned by Sheikh Nasser al Hashar to victory in the fifth round of the H H Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship (IFAHR) at the Sandown Park racecourse in Esher UK on Friday.
The win also booked Karar a spot in the IFAHR Grand Final which is part of the H H Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival to be held in Abu Dhabi UAE on November 8.
Ten amateur riders completed the line-up for the fifth round of the racing festival's series in the 2000m Premier Handicap Purebred Arabian contest. Man Of Dreams under the Swedish lady apprentice jockey Fanny Olsson finished second. Kallista in the hands of the Italian contender Gabriele Malune was third. Queally crossed the finish line in two minute 17.08 seconds with a winning margin of two lengths.
The trainer of Karar Beverley Deutrom (centre) receives the winner's trophy at Sandown Park in Esher UK
'This is my first time on board an Arabian horse' said the delighted Irish teenager.
'The instructions of the trainer were to ride easily but the horse was slow and one-paced at the start and I had to push quite hard to keep him in contention. Luckily he picked up nicely midway and travelled well thereafter.'
Beverley Deutrom the trainer of the winning horse said'Karar is a very good and honest horse. He had won this race last year in Newbury by default and ran a big race last July at the Dubai International Arabian Race Day. He's an improving kind of horse and has been training very well before this race.'
Sheikh Nasser expressed delight at the victory saying 'This is a result of good preparations and I am proud of the achievement. It is an honour to fly Oman's flag high at such world-class races.'
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