25 Nominations have been listed for the Nad Al Sheba Turf Sprint. A 1200M race with prize money of USD 200,000. Godolphin has nominated seven of its front runners including last year’s winner Jungle Cat, D’Bai, Baccarat, Steady Pace, Dream Castle, Top Score and Silver Line. The Team that will give Godolphin a tough day will be nominations from Sh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum. They have five nominations in this race including the Meydan Sprint winner Ertijaal, Faatinah, Fityaan, Mina AZIZI winner Yalta, the Range Rover Velar Handicap winner High On Life and Shaf.
Other notable nominations include Dutch Masterpiece who won the Jebel Ali Trophy and winner of the Meydan Classic Trial, Wasim. We also have multiple runners who have achieved to come in the first three places of multiple races. Runners like the Jebel Ali Sprint winner Shillong, The Great Escape, Out Do, Sir Maximilian. Ten years old and experience contender Krypton Factor has also been nominated for this race.
As we are still in the nominations phase and confirmed runners list has yet to be finalised we have seen horses being nominated for multiple races at a time. We are sure the connection of these horses will take a call as where which horse will run in a couple of days. Till then we hope for the best.
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By Apurva Chavan, Racing Writer, apurva.chavan@secretariatsworld.com