Laamaa continued the remarkable season being enjoyed by his owner and breeder Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his main trainer Majed Al Jahouri by winning the Group 2 middle round of the Arabian Triple Crown, the 2200m feature race at Abu Dhabi on Sunday evening.
Harry Bentley was in the saddle on the winner and said: “Stamina was the issue for most of us and he has stayed well over this longer trip than he has been racing in France. The runner-up and third are both nice types and highly regarded so it has to be a good performance and a highly promising introduction to the UAE. He should be able to build on this.”
It was a double on the card for owner and trainer after the earlier victory of Jarnin in the 2200m conditions race with Kieren Falllon aboard the winner.
The only Thoroughbred race on the card was the concluding 2200m prep race for the Group 3 Emirates Championship, which will be run over the same course and distance on March 17.
It was won well by Malthouse for the in form duo of trainer Satish Seemar and stable jockey Richard Mullen who said: “He won well the last time we were here, beating Dr Faustus who has franked the form before failing to fire at Meydan and being well beaten. This was a good effort and he will surely be a big contender in the Abu Dhabi Championship itself. Hopefully we will be back here in three weeks with a big chance.”
Racing opened with a 1600m maiden in which Champion Jockey Tadhg O’Shea was victorious aboard Errada for trainer Ernst Oertel. The winning jockey said: “She ran well enough the first time and has done well to win here – we did not have a good draw and she is still a big baby who really stuck her head out when it mattered and is very much learning her trade. Hopefully she will go on from here.”
The Jaber-Bittar-trained Monawer may have been asked to concede weight to his 10 rivals in the Emirates Colts’ Classic but, under Pat Cosgrave the colt comfortably shrugged off his impost. His jockey said: “He is a nice horse as we already knew and the penalty was not enough to stop him. It would be nice to think he can build on this and improve further.”
The 2200m conditions race for ‘private owners’ went to the powerful combination of trainer Eric Lemartinel and jockey Gerald Avranche, courtesy of AF Qamoos.
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