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Saif Al Balushi and Khalifa Al Neyadi celebrate double at Abu Dhabi’s second meeting

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Tadhg O’Shea claimed his 10th winner of the new season in Abu Dhabi’s second meeting on Thursday to open up a lead over Pat Dobbs.

O’Shea is bidding for an 11th UAE jockey’s championship title and took the second race when he made all on the Ernst Oertel-trained AF Thayer in the silks of Khalid Khalifa Al Naboodah.

He could have added to his tally, if not for the Omani rider Saif Al Balushi, who produced late runs to pip the Irishman close to the finishing line while completing a fantastic double for trainer Khalifa Al Neyadi.

Al Balushi, on Shoja’a Muscat, took up the running from the 200-metre pole and kept on well to win from O’Shea and AF Motaghatres by two and-a-half lengths.

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