Enthusiastic owners out early to see their pride and joy
Veteran Medicean Man will be a first runner in Qatar for trainer Jeremy Gask when he lines up for the Breeders' Cup-sponsored Dukhan Sprint at Al Rayyan on Saturday, the third and final day of the Emir's Sword Festival. In a daily diary Gask casts his eye over events in Doha and provides the latest news on his evergreen 11-year-old . . .
Medicean Man looked fantastic when he went out on the dirt track at Doha – watched by his freshly arrived enthusiastic owners – on Thursday morning.
Stuart Dobb, a 68-year-old civil engineer from Doncaster, and his daughter Kate have had some great fun with the horse since they bought him for £38,000 as a three-year-old. He's taken them all around the world and repaid them many times over.
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