Lelah Doroh Bids For 10th Career Win

Image: Lelah Doroh wins in Taif on August 15, 2025. Credit: Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia / Ib

Two Domestic Group Three Races highlight Riyadh weekend racing rahim Almuzini.

Lelah Doroh (KSA) for the White Stable of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz & Sons tops a field of seven runners for one of the feature races of the weekend at King Abdulaziz Racecourse – the SAR165,000 domestic Group Three JCSA Board of Directors Cup on Saturday.

The Camilio Ospina-ridden five-year-old landed his ninth career success in Taif three starts ago and has since been second in Riyadh before finishing seventh over this 2000m trip in the Group 2 HRH Prince Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer Cup.

Ibn Toulon (KSA) was fourth that day and re-opposes under Alexis Moreno, with the White Stable further represented by Dhydan (KSA) and jockey Fawaz Alshammari.

The Red Stable of Prince Faisal Bin Khaled Bin Abdulaziz make up nearly half of the field with three runners – top-rated of them being Ricardo Ferreira’s mount Tahzeem (KSA), who was fifth in the HRH Prince Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer Cup and has since finished third in last weekend’s 2400m domestic Group 1 The Crown Prince Cup for locally bred horses.

Mashmookh (KSA) was down the field in that and goes to post again for jockey Adel Alfouraidi with the Red Stable trio completed by Abo Shaikhah (KSA) and Tariq Almansour.

Race 11 on Saturday is an SAR120,000 Open over 1600m and features White Stable’s field Irish import Kortez Bay (IRE) who left the yard of Sheila Lavery in County Meath, where the four-year-old was a winner of two of his 18 starts.

Bader Rizaiq’s runner will have his mettle tested on local debut as he goes up against a quality field of 15 rivals including the consistent Final Destination (GB) for Ferreira, trainer Thamer Aldaihani and owner Sheikh Abdullah Homoud Almalek Alsabah and the Nicolas Bachalard handled Henry Q (USA).

The Arabian Horses Open, staged as the eighth event also over 1600m and worth SAR120,00, looks a great opportunity for Turki Al Khalediah II (KSA) to win again under Alfouraidi.

He was last seen triumphing in Taif in September having strung together a sequence of three wins in Riyadh last season and is well clear of his 18 competitors on the figures.

The second domestic Group Three takes place on Friday and sees 17 juveniles compete for SAR165,000 in the Ministry of National Guard Cup.

The Red and White Stables, along with Aldaihani, have a strong representation being responsible for over half of the field, and all have impressive last-time-out winners to rely on with perhaps the most taking being White Stable’s Alhisham (USA) who scored by over seven lengths on debut last month.

Also on Friday, 10 runners will go on trial in the SAR120,000 Prep for King Saud Cup over 2000m headed by Red Stable’s strong stayer My Frankel (GB), and 16 have been declared for a competitive sprint in the SAR150,000 JCSA Cup over 1200m.

***ENDS***