PARIS: France’s Tarbes Racecourse will host the H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Cup for Purebred Arabian Horses, the “Prix Fleur d’Avril”, and the Wathba Stallions Cup, known as “Prix Frédéric Bouas”, tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Spanish Du Antela Racecourse will feature another Wathba Stallions Cup, all part of the 16th edition of the His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Racing Festival.
The H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Cup, a 1,500-metre race, features six horses aged four years and older, competing for a prize purse of pound 16,000.
The Wathba Stallions Cup for four-year-olds and above, a 2,300-metre race, will see horses. This event, also part of the Sheikh Mansour Festival, highlights the UAE’s commitment to promoting Arabian horse racing worldwide.
At the Du Antela track, another Wathba Stallions Cup event will feature six horses over a 1,600-metre course.
Source: Emirates News Agency
