REVIEW / JEBEL ALI adiyat racing plus.com 29 ADIYAT RACING PLUS ISSUE 838 Thursday 21 st March 2024 Major Cinnamon Al Tariq El Patriota track, the seven-year-old Tapiture gelding went full throttle in the final 400m and held on by a half length as the trip proved a little too sharp for Seemar’s Elusive Terry (O’Shea), who failed to stretch his unbeaten run to three. El Baareq was third, a further three lengths adrift, for Rashed Bouresly and Bernardo Pinheiro. “It’s always nice to have a winner and it’s always nice to have one at the end of the season and to have that kind of confidence boost going forward to whatever lies ahead. He seemed to go really fast, but it was a matter of keeping him going and not breaking his rhythm and he did well to hold off some really good horses in there,” Malune said. Denied earlier, Julio Olascoaga managed to win the venue’s last race of the season, the Commercial Bank of Dubai Cup, a 0-95 handicap over 1600m, in which El Patriota (Da Silva) flew to hold on by a half length ahead of the Seemar-trained Arabian Tale (O’Shea). Ismail Mohammed’s ace miler took third, three quarters adrift under Sandro Paiva.
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