Wathnan Racing snap up classy King's Gambit before run in $2.5m Group 3

Qatari superpower Wathnan Racing have added the classy King’s Gambit to their emerging team of talent and their latest purchase is to carry their blue and gold colours for the first time in the Group 3 Emir’s Trophy at Doha on Saturday.

The four-year-old, who is to remain in the stable of Harry Charlton, is one of three Wathnan hopefuls in the $2.5 million contest and, such is the depth of their squad, retained jockey James Doyle has chosen to ride locally based Supercooled in the 1m4f contest instead. 

Supercooled, formerly trained by Andre Fabre, was a four-length winner of the Qatar Derby under Doyle in December and in his absence King’s Gambit is to be ridden by Mickael Barzalona.