Pattern winners consigned to Dubai sale

Pattern winners consigned to Dubai sale

Group 2 winners LORD ADMIRAL (El Prado [Ire]), BIARRITZ (Count Dubois) and

ROYAL VINTAGE (Rich Man's Gold), along with multiple Group 3 winner VERTIGINEUX

(Nombre Premiere) highlight the Dubai International Racing Carnival Session of

the annual Emirates Racing Authority Horses in Training Sale at Nad Al Sheba

next week.

In association with leading auction house Tattersalls, the sale will

encompass 47 horses to be sold at the DIRC session on March 3 with another 97

due to be sold the following evening at the ERA Horses in Training Sale.

At 112, Lord Admiral and Biarritz are the highest rated in the sale. Lord

Admiral captured the Jebel Hatta (UAE-G2) and Al Rashidiya (UAE-G3) at the 2008

Dubai International Racing Carnival, and plans are for him to attempt a second

win in the Jebel Hatta on Super Thursday, two days after his sale.

Biarritz has shown good form in his native South Africa with success in the

Gauteng Guineas (SAf-G2) complementing his two placings at the Group 1 level.

Since his arrival in Dubai for the 2009 Carnival, he has shown his quality with

two placings from as many starts.

Royal Vintage proved his class as a three-year-old at last year's Carnival,

finishing second to stablemate Honour Devil (Honour and Glory) in the U.A.E Two

Thousand Guineas (UAE-G3) and U.A.E. Derby (UAE-G2), though he did manage to

defeat that horse in the Al Bastakiya, his second black type success following a

Group 2 victory in South Africa as a two-year-old.

A winner of seven of his 14 starts, Vertigineux impressed on his only start

to date in Dubai when third carrying top weight, and is a dual Group 3 winner in

his native France. The horse is due to run in this week's Zabeel Mile (UAE-G3)

at Nad Al Sheba.

"We are very pleased with the quality of horse entered for the Carnival

session of the sale and there are numerous opportunities for people to buy

horses in preparation for our move to Meydan in 2010," said Frank Gabriel, CEO

of Dubai Racing Club.

"Everyone is welcome, there is no admission fee and this provides an ideal

chance to become involved in the racing industry here in the UAE."