The horse owned by "Yas Racing Management", belonging to His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, crowned the title of the first round of the President's Cup for purebred Arabian horses, in its 27th edition, the day before yesterday, on the track Deauville, France.
"Drian" added the French Cup's second place title to "Yas Racing Management" records, after Al-Muhr won a gentleman in the 2018 race.
Drian, whose training is supervised by coach Didier Gelimin and led by Knight Ortz Mendelsbel, managed to make a strong presentation that caught the attention of the race followers with a distance of 2000 meters in the first category. With a neck difference from the second-place winner, "Melabi", while "Hajras Ten" came third.
"Victor Ludorm" foil, with the Godolphin logo, achieved a remarkable double for the UAE, after winning the Emirati-French Giants foals for the 1600 meters, with a total of 600,000 euros in the first category.
And "Victor", under the supervision of coach Andre Faber, and led by the jockey Michael Barzalona, decided the race in a time of 1:34:14 minutes, a difference of one and a half times the length of "The Summit", under the supervision of coach Henry Pantel, while Ellison came in third place.
"Dream in Du" crowned the UAE's French-Guinness title for foals for a distance of 1600 meters for the first category, whose prize money is 500 thousand euros, under the supervision of coach Frederick Rossi and the leadership of the knight Maxim Gion.