Horse Racing Notebook: Forever Young Faces Bob Baffert Duo in Saudi Cup

Horse racing notebook: Forever Young faces Bob Baffert duo in Saudi Cup

Forever Young, the Japanese-bred 5-year-old last seen in competition winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 1, tries to become the first repeat winner in the seven runnings of the $20 million Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Racecourse on Saturday. But he and jockey Ryusei Sakai will have to beat 5-year-old Nysos (Flavien Prat riding) and 4-year-old Nevada Beach (Irad Ortiz Jr.), the Bob Baffert-trained pair who battled to a 1-2 finish …

Epic Saudi Cup night awaits Forever Young

NO HORSE has won two Saudi Cups and no horse has won three times at The Saudi Cup meeting. Step forward, FOREVER YOUNG. You won’t rich get backing him at 4/6 for the $20 million showpiece on Saturday (5.40pm) in Riyadh, but with the World Pool in action you could mix him into some exotics. So, who’ll be chasing home Japan’s Breeders’ Cup Classic-winning poster boy this year? Nysos appears to be Bob Baffert’s number one challenger and that alone …

Saudi Cup Contender Profile: Sunrise Zipangu

The $20 million Saudi Cup (G1) is Saturday, Feb. 14, at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and US Racing is publishing profiles of all the contenders. Kyoko Maekawa made history a year ago as the first female to hold a training license in Japan. On Saturday, Maekawa sends out Sunrise Zipangu in the $20 million Saudi Cup (G1). Quite an achievement. The 5-year-old bay will be making just his third start for Maekawa, his most recen…

Riyadh on the rise – The story of the Saudi Cup | Topics: King Abdulaziz racecourse, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Cup

Article by Comment: From a conditions race (albeit a rich one) to a Group 1. This weekend, the Saudi Cup has its fifth running as a top-level contest.

Black-Type Analysis: Can Baffert Duo Dethrone Forever Young?

Saturday, King Abdulaziz (Riyadh), Saudi Arabia, post time: 20:40, SAUDI CUP-G1, $20,000,000, NH/SH4yo/up, 1800m Field: Banishing (Ghostzapper), Bishops Bay (Uncle Mo), Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}), Haqeet (Arrogate), Luxor Cafe (American Pharoah), Mhally (GB) (Sergei Prokofiev), Nevada Beach (Omaha Beach), Nysos (Nyquist), Rattle N Roll (Connect), Star Of Wonder (Uncle Mo), Sunrise Zipangu (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}), Thundersquall (GB) (Dub…