2/19/2010 Al Fahidi Fort(G2) Bankable

Meydan Racecourse, Friday, 19 February 2010
Al Fahidi Fort Sponsored By Commercial Bank Of Dubai
TB - Group 2 USD 250,000
Weather: Fine Track Condition: GD/FM
Rail Position: Out 15m Safety Limit: 12
1600M(a8F) - All-Weather
Running Time: 01:38:50
1st 150,000  4th 12,500 Free to Enter 
2nd 50,000  5th   7,500  Free to declare and start 
3rd  25,000  6th   5,000 
For NH 4YO+ & SH 3YO+ Weight: SH 3YO 57kg. NH & SH 4YO+ 59.5kg 

FP	Margin	Gate	OR	Horse	Wgt (Kgs)	Equipment	Trainer	Jockey
1st		3	115	Bankable (IRE)	56.0	TT	H Brown	Ryan Moore
2rd	Sh	11	115	Imbongi (SAF)	57.0		M de Kock	Christophe Soumillon
3rd	Hd	5	105	Ibn Battuta (USA)	56.0		M Al Muhairi	Wayne Smith
4th	3	10	110	Tam Lin (GB)	56.0	TT	M bin Shafya	William Supple
5th	Ns	8	112	Fravashi (AUS)	57.0	CP	S bin Suroor	Ted Durcan
6th	1	1	120	Justenuffhumor (USA)	57.5		S bin Suroor	Lanfranco Dettori
7th	1.75	7	116	Premio Loco (USA)	57.5		C Wall	George Baker
8th	0.25	4	113	Ibn Khaldun (USA)	56.0		S bin Suroor	Ahmad Ajtebi (nil)
9th	3	6	113	Debussy (IRE)	57.5		J Gosden	William Buick
10th	1.5	9	109	Dunelight (IRE)	56.0	V	C Cox	Kieren Fallon

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BANKABLE 수 2004 IRE 갈색 전적:18(7/6/1)  G2	Medicean 밤 1997 GB  G1 12전(6,0,3) 786,456 USD 53 f, 2sw $19000	Machiavellian 매키어벨리언 흑 1987 USA {1292} G1 655 f, 56sw 2.21	Mr. Prospector 갈 1970 USA *+{BC} LSB
			Coup De Folie 갈 1982 USA {*} G3
		Mystic Goddess 1990 USA  SW 2 f, 2 w, 1 sw	Storm Bird 갈 1978 CAN [I 1400] G1
			Rose Goddess 1979 IRE  Unr
	Dance To The Top 갈 1991 GB  전(0,0,0) 0 0 f, 0 w, 0 sw	Sadler's Wells 새들러즈웰즈 갈 1981 USA *{CS} LS 1944 f, 279sw 3.60	Northern Dancer 갈 1961 CAN *+{BC} LSB
			Fairy Bridge 갈 1975 USA  SW
		Aim For The Top 갈 1985 USA  G3 1 f, 0 w, 0 sw	Irish River 밤 1976 FR *[P 1500] LS
			Sticky Habit 1978 GB

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Fahidi Fort Banked by Brown and Moore
Fri, 19/02/2010 - 23:12 
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Bankable, trained by South African Herman Brown and ridden by Ryan Moore, was the game winner of a thrilling Group Two Al Fahidi Fort, the feature and only turf race at Meydan’s sixth meeting of the 2010 Dubai International Racing Carnival.

Sponsored by Commercial Bank of Dubai, the race produced a three way photo with Bankable defeating Imbongi and Ibn Battuta in a bob of heads.

Brown, winning the race for a third time, said: “He is a really nice horse and the Dubai Duty Free has always been his target. Now he has won this we will probably go straight there without another run.”

Earlier, Godolphin’s Skysurfers had impressively defeated a quality field in a 1m conditions race on Tapeta under Frankie Dettori. He was chased home by Group 1 winner Eagle Mountain and trainer Saeed Bin Suroor said: “He is a horse I have always liked and we will have to think about stepping him up in class.”

Trainer and jockey were completing a double having earlier won the 1200m handicap with Global City who was recording a second course and distance Carnival win, as was Luca Cumani’s Drunken Sailor who won the 2200m handicap under Kieren Fallon.

Doug Watson made the perfect start to the night with Quaolina and Richard Hills winning the opening Group Two Bani Yas, a 1200m race and the only Purebred Arabian race on the card.

He then saddled Green Coast to win the 1400m handicap under Tadhg O’Shea and the trainer said: “That is a great way to start the night and the horses have been going well in general. Quaolina is a quality mare and she will go back to Abu Dhabi for the Group One Liwa Oasis she won last year.

“Green Coast continues to run well and deserved to get his head in front after two luckless efforts.”

Watson then ended the night in perfect style with O’Shea again in the saddle on Roman’s Run who won the concluding 1900m handicap.

Watson trails Ali Rashid Al Raihe in the trainers’ championship and that rival opened his 2010 Carnival account when Al Shemali won the 2000m handicap under Royston Ffrench who said: “The horse have been running so well and we have been having seconds and thirds so it is great to actually win one for the whole team.”

Bankable opens season with stakes win at Meydan
Posted: Friday, February 19, 2010 4:31 PM
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/international-news/2010/February/19/Bankable-opens-season-with-stakes-win-at-Meydan.aspx

Bankable, who closed out last season with a stakes victory, opened 2010 with a close win in the $250,000 Commercial Bank of Dubai Al Fahidi Fort Stakes (UAE-G2) on Friday at Meydan Racecourse.

After settling toward the rear in the field of ten in the 1,600-meter turf race, Bankable and jockey Ryan Moore moved into contention a quarter-mile from the wire and then seized the lead in deep stretch, holding off Imbongi by a nose with third-place Ibn Battuta just another head back.

Bankable was making his first start since winning the Fortune Stakes on September 16 at Sandown. A third-place finisher in last year’s Singapore Airlines International Cup (Sin-G1), Bankable secured the first group stakes win of his career.

An Irish-bred four-year-old Medicean colt, Bankable has won six of 17 starts and has earned $982,000. He is trained by Herman Brown for controversial owner Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov was appointed Chechen president in 2007 by Vladimir Putin, then president of Russia.

Imbongi settled for a runner-up finish for a second straight time at Meydan while Kentucky-bred Ibn Battuta earned a placing in a group stakes for the first time in his career.