REVIEW / JEBEL ALI adiyat racing plus.com 26 ADIYAT RACING PLUS ISSUE 838 Thursday 21 st March 2024 DARAMETHOS DEFENDS STAKES HONOUR AS THE CURTAINS COME DOWN ON RACING AT JEBEL ALI By Duane Fonseca Musabbeh Al Mheiri and Oscar Chavez were left to celebrate feature race success on the final fixture of the campaign at Jebel Ali Racecourse after a season-defining performance from Daramethos saw him stage a successful defence of the Listed Jebel Ali Stakes. After two rather tepid performances from his three previous starts this term, it turned out to be a case of fourth time lucky for the sixyear-old Sea The Stars gelding, who put the race to bed when he stole to the front along the rail with a kick that saw him go three clear. A determined King Ottoman, the ride of Pat Cosgrave, made a brave effort to reel him inside the closing 200m of the 1950m contest, but their bid fell by the wayside as they could only manage to bring the winner’s victory margin down to three quarters of a length. DARAMETHOS PUT THE RACE TO BED WHEN HE HIT THE FRONT 600M OUT AND WENT THREE CLEAR IN NO TIME. In what was a 2-3 for Bhupat Seemar, Franz Strauss, the race favourite ridden by defending champion Tadhg O’Shea, was forced to settle for third, a further two-and-ahalf lengths in arrears. When winning the first time, Daramethos had claimed victory by three and a half lengths under Antonio Fresu, but Chavez did not mind the narrower three-quarter length win that brought him a 16th success of the campaign. He said: “It was a very good performance from him. “He is a solid horse who might have been a bit unlucky earlier in the season but look he’s finished it really well and defending a title is no mean feat. “He showed a lot of courage and we w e n t He said: It was a very good performance
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