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Article by Jon Lees: Saudi Arabia: Leading British jockey Tom Marquand was suspended for six days after being found guilty of careless riding in the race in which US-trained Channel Cat and his Eclipse Award-winning rider Joel Rosario hit the deck during the Saudi Cup meeting.

The field is set: 14 horses from seven countries are entered for Saturday’s $20 million Saudi Cup (G1), the world’s richest horse race, at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Article by George Dudley: Ahead of the third running of the Saudi Cup on Saturday, HRH Prince Bandar bin Khalid Al Faisal, chairman of the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia (JCSA) and driving force behind the world’s richest race, speaks exclusively to TRC’s George Dudley in a two-part interview. Part 2 on Thursday

By PA Sport Reporters 2022-02-22

RIYADH: David Egan and Saffie Osborne are quietly becoming quite a power couple in horse racing. The highly regarded Egan is attempting to repeat his 2021 success in The Saudi Cup riding Mishriff, and Osborne can also be hopeful of emulating such a sharp upward curve after her recent feats. Osborne, 20, whose father is the British trainer Jamie Osborne, rode 50 winners in her

"He had a nice light little breeze this morning, half a mile [800m]. I was really happy with him. He was kind of looking around a little bit, as they had a bunch of people on the grass course this morning for the first time. So there was a lot going on."

The Saudi Cup 2022, to be held on February 25 and 26, is going to be bigger and better than before with exciting new initiatives over the two days, and it won’t just be the racing that visitors will enjoy.

Mishriff will become the highest earning racehorse of all time if he successfully defends his crown in the Saudi Cup on Saturday, with the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia commissioning a short film — “The Story of Mishriff” — to celebrate the horse’s journey so far. Owned and bred by Prince Abdulrahman bin Abdullah Al-Faisal, Mishriff competed at the first two Saudi Cup meetings.

Mishriff will become the highest earning racehorse of all time if he successfully defends his crown in The Saudi Cup on Saturday and the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia has commissioned a short film – The Story of Mishriff – to celebrate his career so far.

The Saudi Cup 2022, to be held on February 25 and 26, is going to be bigger and better than before with exciting new initiatives over the two days, and it won’t just be the racing that visitors will enjoy.