DOHA: The three-day Amir’s Golden Sword Festival starts at Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC) today.
Today’s feature race will see riders competing for top honours in the Al Zubara Trophy to be run over 2000m. The top prize is $85,500 while the second-best rider will get $33,000. The third-best rider will get $16,500.
Tomorrow the riders will eye glory in the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cup (QA Gr 2), the main event on day two of the horse racing festival. The top rider in the $200,000 race will take home $114.000. The second-best rider will get $44,000 while the third-placed entry will get richer by $22,000.
The main spectacle on Saturday - the last day of the racing festival - will see riders aiming for glory in the Amir’s Trophy (QA Gr 1) presented by Longines. The overall prize bag for this race is $1m with the top rider getting $570,000 while the second-best rider will get $220,000.
The third-placed rider will get $110,000. In the last event of the three-day festival, the Amir’s Sword (GR 1, PA) - sponsored by Al Hazm - the riders will be aiming for the top prize of $570,000.
The second-placed rider will get richer by $220,000 while the third-best entry will take home $110,000.
The entire three-day festival will be broadcast live in Al Kass Sport Channels.
Attractive prizes are in place for fans who turn up to watch the action at QREC, the home of horse racing in Qatar.
Yesterday, QREC signed a sponsorship agreement with Al Hazm, the main sponsors of Amir’s Sword (GR 1, PA) on Saturday. Nasser bin Sherida Al Kaabi, the CEO of QREC, signed the agreement with Mohammed Abdulkarim Al Emaid, CEO of Al Emadi Enterprises.
Source: thepeninsulaqatar.com