Slovakia: Esmail Mohammad: Quality is the key to success

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Dual World Championship-winning trainer stresses the importance of having qualitative goals

By Leslie Wilson Jr
Racing & Special Features Writer
Published: 17:08 October 4, 2014

Bratislava, Slovakia: One word that keeps cropping up when talking to Esmail Mohammad, the dual endurance world championship winning trainer, is quality.

Achieving good results, he says, has everything to do with quality — from the horse to its training to the execution of the ride.

Esmail is clearly a man driven by the desire to achieve the best results and he purses that objective relentlessly. Which explains how he has been able to find the right balance between training endurance horses and thoroughbred racehorses, simultaneously...

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Australia: Wagin gears up for Tom Quilty Gold Cup

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By AMANDA RAYNER Oct. 1, 2014, 10 p.m.

IN 1966 Kimberley cattleman Tom Quilty and renowned bootmaker R M Williams had a bet in a pub that a horse could not be ridden 100 miles in one day.

Quilty donated 1000 and a gold cup was commissioned for the first prize.

The first endurance ride was organised as a national ride to perpetuate his wish that we should not lose the ability or pioneering tradition to ride over varying terrain for long distances.

The first ride was held in the Hawkesbury area in New South Wales with 26 riders starting in the event.

Gabriel Stecher, a Hungarian born engineer, won on his purebred Arabian stallion Shalawi. He rode all the way bareback in a time of 11 hours and 24 minutes. The Quilty tradition was born...

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Australia: Endurance rider Brook Sample looking for 10th Tom Quilty Gold Cup win

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October 1 2014

CHAMPION endurance rider Brook Sample will be looking at claiming his eighth Tom Quilty Gold Cup title in Wagin tomorrow.

The nation's most prestigious endurance ride, the gruelling 160 kilometre event was won in 2013 by Sample in his home state of Queensland in just over nine hours.

His 17-year-old horse Brookleigh Excalibur had previously won with Sample in 2012 at St Helens in Tasmania and in 2010 at Manilla in NSW.

Sample was the youngest rider to win the Tom Quilty Cup at age 16.

He won on a horse bred by his father Bob Sample also a notable endurance rider and from whom the passion of endurance riding was fostered from an early age. Sample began riding at the age of two, competing in his first ride at age four...

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USA Young Endurance Riders Head to Santo Domingo, Chile

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29 September 2014, USA
Pamela Burton

Emmett Ross, Chef d’Equipe for USA Endurance, has verified that two riders will compete in the 120km CEIYJ2** endurance ride to be held in Santo Domingo, Chile on 4 October.

Ross: “Yes I am taking two young riders to Chile for October 4 120 km ride. The Chilean Federation has been great and offered to find two horses for the two riders to ride. Pedro Pablo Gomez, who has been a friend for over 15 years, is dedicating two of his horses– Pedro’s wife Ximena is arranging much of the administrative aspects. This event is to allow a few of our top young riders to learn the course in advance of the Junior Young Rider World Championships hosted by Chile in November 2015. The venue location at the beautiful Las Brisas resort is near the town of Santo Domingo nearly a two hour drive from Santiago...

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Al Faresi: I have waited for this moment so long

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Emirati rider says advice of Shaikh Mohammad help him win

By Leslie Wilson JrRacing & Special Features Writer
Published: September 28, 2014

Samorin, Slovakia: With success having eluded him in nine years of riding, Mansour Saeed Al Faresi was probably one of the unlikely candidates to excel in the FEI World Endurance Championships for Young Horses 2014 at Samorin, Slovakia, on Saturday.

The advice of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai helped him brush aside his past disappointment and claim victory for the UAE on a day that ended in heartache for his teammate Shaikh Hamed Dalmouk Al Maktoum.

Shaikh Hamed was the first rider to cross the finish line at the end of the 120km CEI 4* ride, but his horse, Normandy, went lame and was cruelly disqualified in the final VET gate...

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UAE, France dominate Young Horse endurance champs in Slovakia

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By Contributor on Sep 30, 2014 in Focus

The UAE’s Mansour Saeed Mohd Al Faresi and Tiswan Fageole have won the FEI World Endurance Championships for Young Horses in Slovakia, with French riders filling second, third and fourth places, writes Berry Pattison.

The event boasted one of the highest completion rates for a seven-year-old horses, when 20 completed the 120km ride from 44 starters...

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Slovakia: World Endurance for young horses off to rousing start

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KT Report / 28 September 2014

An array of riders from the UAE, Argentina, France, Estonia, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic will compete in the challenging 120km CEI 4 event for seven-year-old horses.

Samorin: The FEI World Endurance Championships for Young Horses 2014 got off to a rousing start as riders from 15 countries came together in pursuit of glory at Samorin, Slovakia.

An array of riders from the UAE, Argentina, France, Estonia, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic will compete in the challenging 120km CEI 4 event for seven-year-old horses.

The event opened to the rapturous sound of drumming by a band wearing the green and gold colours of HH Shaikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival as representatives from the participating countries performed a march past waving their national flags to the crowd.

Miloslav Seruga, President of the event was joined by Peter Pellegrini, Minister of Education, Science Research and Sport, Lara Sawaya, Chairman of Ladies Racing Committee in the International Federation of Arabian Horse Racing Authorities (IFAHR) offered an enthusiastic welcome to the riders and wished them best of luck.

The FEI World Endurance Championships for Young Horses is being held in Slovakia for the first time in history. As many as 43 riders will have to cover the gruelling 120-kilometre track from Pezinok to Samorin, which is divided into five loops...

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