Haqeet Looking For Listed Double

IN-FORM MOUNT OF CAMILIO OSPINA RACES 11 RIVALS

Image:Haqeet lands the King Saud Cup at King Abdulaziz Racecourse on December 27, 2025. Credit: Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia - Ali Abdullah Alzunaydi.

Wednesday January 28, 2026 – Haqeet (USA) will bid for a back-to-back Listed double this Friday when the King Saud Cup winner goes again in the feature SAR300,000 King Abdulaziz Racetrack Champion.

The White Stable of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz runner arrives in great form having won two of his three most recent starts including a near five-length blitz last time, and his only recent defeat came at the hands of the Red Sea Turf Handicap trial winner Sayyah (USA).

He takes on Thundersquall (GB) and Scotland Yard (USA) who were last seen finishing fourth and fifth to the Saudi Cup-bound Mhally (GB) in the qualifier for that race – The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup – two weeks ago.

The Red Stable of Prince Faisal bin Khaled bin Abdulaziz are doubly represented in the final race on the card with Almaan (USA) and Ricardo Ferreira’s mount Wootton'sun (FR), who ran 9th in last year’s Saudi Cup and was down the field in The Custodian last start.

Mhally’s owner Sheikh Abdullah Homoud Almalek Alsabah is also represented in the 2000m highlight courtesy of last week’s UK Cup fifth Pretty Flag (IRE).

The race before is the domestic Group 3 SAR300,000 King Abdulaziz Racetrack Champion for Purebred Arabian Horses, with a full field of 20 headed by last-time-out winner of the Sprint Championship Cup Foo De Pine (ITA) who is once again the mount of Alexis Moreno.

Race 10 is the SAR300,000 King Abdulaziz Racetrack Champion for fillies and mares over 1200m and this looks a great opportunity for Sheikh Abdullah Homoud Almalek Alsabah’s Snafiya (IRE) to return to winning ways after her excellent third in the Riyadh Dirt Sprint Qualifier.

There are three Final Champion of the Racecourses sponsored by the JCSA worth SAR300,000, the final one being for older horses over 2000m as race nine, while Arabian Thoroughbred Horses go to post in the preceding event over 1800m and four-year-old fillies are in action in race seven over 1800m.

Saturday sees the final day of action prior to The Saudi Cup meeting on February 13 and 14 and features six runners in the SAR300,000 Prince Saad Bin Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Cup over the marathon 2400m.

Ospina is aboard White Stable’s Almaqam (KSA) who has won two of his last three outings over the course and distance, scoring by over 12 lengths last time in the Al-Jouf Region Governorate Cup with the reopposing Red Stable runner Ibn Laboun (KSA) back in third.

Also on Saturday is the SAR300,000 Prince Mohd bin Abdulraham bin Faisal Cup for three-year-olds in which Opsina is on White Stable runner Al Tharb (USA) whose winning run came to an end when fourth to Saudi Derby entry Al Haram (IRE) in the 2000 Guineas.

He again takes on Ashwas (USA) who was seventh in that race but has been busy since and last weekend dropped to 1400m to win a conditions event by nearly five lengths.

Sheikh Abdullah Homoud Almalek Alsabah’s pair of Gharamy (IRE) and Dance Desire (GB) were first and second in the Ministry of Environment, Water & Agriculture Cup earlier in the month and face nine rivals in the domestic G3 Japan’s Cup, while his Uncle (GB) is top-rated in the 1600m Ministry of Culture Cup.

The two most valuable races take place on Thursday with two sales races sponsored by the JCSA for horses sold at Auction in 2024 and the sixth and seventh events on the card are both worth SAR650,000.