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2011 Dubai World Cup
The 2011 Dubai World Cup was a horse race held at Meydan Racecourse on Saturday 26 March 2011. It was the 16th running of the Dubai World Cup. The winner was Yoshimi Ichikawa's Victoire Pisa, a four-year-old dark bay or brown colt trained in Japan by Katsuhiko Sumii and ridden by Mirco Demuro. Victoire Pisa's victory was the first in the race for his jockey, trainer and owner and the first for a horse trained in Japan. Victoire Pisa had been the champion three-year-old colt in Japan in 2010 when he had won the Satsuki Shō and the Arima Kinen. Before being sent to Dubai he had been campaigned exclusively on turf: the World Cup was his first race on a synthetic surface. In the 2011 Dubai World Cup he started a 20/1 outsider and won by half a length from another Japanese horse Transcend (a dirt specialist), with the Godolphin runner Monterosso a neck away in third. The 2/1 favourite Twice Over finished ninth of the fourteen runners. Race details * Sponsor: Emirates Airl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Fujita
is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *Shinji Aoyama (真治), a Japanese film director *Shinji Aramaki (伸志), a Japanese anime director and mechanical designer * Shinji Hashimoto, a Japanese game producer *Shinji Harada, a Japanese pop music artist *Shinji Higuchi (真嗣), a Japanese storyboard artist *Shinji Hosoe (慎治), a Japanese composer * Shinji Hosokawa (伸二), a Japanese judoka *Shinji Inoue (信治), a Japanese politician *Shinji Ishihira, a Japanese director *Shinji Kagawa (真司), a Japanese football player *Shinji Kajio (真治), a Japanese author of science fiction and fantasy *Shinji Kawada (紳司), a Japanese voice actor * Shinji Kazama, a Japanese motorcyclist *, Japanese footballer and manager * Shinji Maejima (信次), a Japanese Orientalist *Shinji Maki (伸二), a Japanese comedian *Shinji Mikami (真司), a Japanese video game designer *Shinji Mizui, a Japanese musician *Shinji Mizushima (新司), a Japanese man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Soumillon
Christophe Soumillon (born 4 June 1981) is a Belgian jockey based in France. Career Coming from a racing background, Soumillon is the son of jump jockey Jean-Marc Soumillon. He rode in pony races and left Belgium aged fifteen to go to the racing school in Chantilly, France, where he was then apprenticed to trainer Cédric Boutin. Soumillon rode his first Group race winner aged eighteen when Berine's Son, trained by André Fabre, won the 2000 Prix de Fontainebleau. The following season he won four Group 1 races, including the Prix du Jockey Club on Anabaa. Soumillon won the cravache d'or (the golden whip or French champion jockey title) for the first time in 2003 and won his tenth title in 2018. Although primarily known as a flat jockey, Soumillon has also ridden over hurdles, winning the 2010 Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil (French Champion Hurdle) on Mandali. 2022 riding suspension On 30 September 2022 Soumillon was given a 60 day ban for elbowing Rossa Ryan off his horse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Botti
Marco Botti (born 23 December 1976) is an Italian racehorse trainer who is based in Great Britain, working from his stable ''Prestige Place'' in Newmarket, Suffolk. Botti is the son of Alduino Botti, a champion racehorse trainer in Italy, and worked for trainers Luca Cumani, Ed Dunlop and the Godolphin Racing organization before becoming a trainer in his own right. Botti's first winner as a trainer came in 2006 and he has become established a successful trainer since then, gaining Group One victories in France, Canada and the United States. Major wins * Canadian International Stakes - (1) - ''Joshua Tree (2012)'' * Natalma Stakes - (1) - ''Capla Temptress (2017)'' ---- * Prix du Moulin de Longchamp - (1) - ''Excelebration (2011)'' * Prix Royal-Oak The Prix Royal-Oak is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 3,100 metres (about 1 mile and 7½ f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Murtagh
Johnny Murtagh (born 14 May 1970) is an Irish flat racing trainer and former jockey from Bohermeen, near Navan, Kells, County Meath. As a jockey he won many of the major flat races in Europe, including all the Irish Classics, all the Group 1 Races at Royal Ascot, The Derby, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes and Europe's biggest race the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He was also Irish flat racing Champion Jockey five times. As a trainer, based at stables near Kildare, he has saddled a winner at Royal Ascot and an Irish Classic winner. Background Murtagh was born in Navan, County Meath. He was a keen amateur boxer as a young boy and was once Irish boy's under-14 boxing champion. He also came close to joining Blackburn Rovers' youth football team. At a boxing fight one evening in his native County Meath, a spectator advised his mother that Murtagh had the attributes to make a good jockey, balance, poise, weight, strength, courage. His mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitano Hernando , a fashion apparel company, USA
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Gitano may refer to: * Gitanos, Romani people in Spain * ''Gitano'' (2000 film), a Spanish film * ''Gitano'' (album), a 2007 album by Rolando Villazón * ''Gitano'', a 2012 album by Canut Reyes * Gitano Group Inc. Gitano Group Inc. was a company that manufactured jeans. They filed for bankruptcy protection in 1994. History An Israeli immigrant family the Dabahs began the business in the late 1960s, expanded with help from another such family in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Clement
Christophe Clement (born November 1, 1965 in Paris, France) is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in the United States who won the 2014 Belmont Stakes with Tonalist. Racing background Clement initially acquired his training skills from his father, Miguel, a leading trainer in France. Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head. In the United States, Christophe studied under Hall Of Fame conditioner Shug McGaughey before returning to Europe to work as assistant to trainer Luca Cumani in Newmarket, England. Racing career Christophe's first winner was the first horse he saddled, Spectaculaire, at Belmont Park in 1991. Since then, he has been a prolific force in graded stakes around the country including wins with Trampoli, Danish winner of the 1994 Queen Elizabeth II stakes at Keeneland, Voodoo Dancer, Blu Tusmani, Relaxed Gesture, Flag Down, Statesmanship, Coretta, Honor Glide, Dedication, Dynever, Forbidden Apple, and England's Legend who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gio Ponti (horse)
Gio Ponti (foaled February 28, 2005 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred race horse who was the Champion Turf Horse in 2009 and 2010, and finished second to Zenyatta in the 2009 Breeder's Cup Classic. He was sired by Tale of the Cat, a son of Storm Cat, out of the stakes-placed Alydar mare Chipeta Springs, making him half-brother to stakes-winner Fisher Pond. During his racing career, Gio Ponti was owned by Castleton Lyons and trained by Christophe Clement. Racing career Named for a well-known Italian artist and architect, Gio Ponti began racing in the silks of Shane Ryan's Castleton Lyons Farm under trainer Christophe Clement and broke his maiden in his first start as a two-year-old at Belmont Park, winning by 2½ lengths. He was then was entered in the Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland in his second start, where he scored the first stakes win of his career. After an unplaced effort in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, he was given time off to prepare for his 3-year-old campai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidan O'Brien
Aidan Patrick O'Brien (born 16 October 1969 in County Wexford, Ireland) Aidan O'Brien bio NTRA.com is an Irish trainer. Since 1996, he has been the private trainer at Stables near in |
Jamie Spencer
Jamie Spencer (born 8 June 1980, in County Tipperary) is an Irish flat racing jockey currently riding in the UK. He has been champion jockey in both Ireland and Britain and has won seven classics, five in Ireland and two in England.Jamie Spencer Jockey Profile Back-Strait.com; accessed 29 May 2016. Spencer is an advocate for the art of holding up horses late into the races, and then making use of their natural dash of speed. Racing career The son of former National Hunt trainer George Spencer, who trained Winning Fair to win the |
Cape Blanco (horse)
Cape Blanco (foaled 20 April 2007 in Ireland) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who won five Group One/Grade I races between 2009 and 2011. He also won twice at Group 2 level and once at Group 3 level between 2009 and 2010. He was the Irish Three-Year-Old Colt of the Year in 2010 and also the American Champion Male Turf Horse for the 2011 season. Background Cape Blanco was sired by champion sire Galileo out of the Presidium mare Laurel Delight. As a foal of Laurel Delight he is a half-brother to the Kelso Stakes winner Mr O'Brien. Cape Blanco was trained throughout his racing career by Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle Stables near Cashel in County Tipperary for John Magnier and his Coolmore Stud associates. Racing career He is the winner of the 2010 Irish Derby and Irish Champion Stakes as well as being placed second in the 2010 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes behind Harbinger. In 2011, he won the Grade 1 Man o' War Stakes at Belmont Park, Arlington Million at Arlington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
