By Sports Reporter/Doha
The CSI3* Accumulator with Joker was a great opener for jumping competition and a real entertaining show for a near to capacity crowd yesterday at AL SHAQAB 2015. Saudi Arabia dominated the event by taking the first three places.
The 32 riders representing four different countries lined up for a rather spectacular competition which featured nine obstacles with the bar raised at 1m30 and a twenty-point worth tenth one at 1m55.
Of all competitors only three were able to complete a flawless course and eventually earned the right to be at podium. All came from Saudi Arabia with Fahad al-Eid being the fastest, finishing in 54:35 on 2001-born stallion Natal de St Martin. Khaled Abdulrahman Almobty with Aloha ranked second with a time of 55:27, while the winner’s elder and rather more famous brother Khaled al-Eid and Dona Evita trailed in third with 59:12, to complete a clean Saudi sweep.
The best among the Qataris was fourth-ranked Mohammed Said A.M Haidan on Kingdom Come. Kuwait’s Ali al-Khorafi, who had been real effective and excelled at almost all previous CSI3* jumping events at AL SHAQAB 2015, galloped on Ungarin 4 without hitting a single fence until he reached the “Joker”, but failed to clear it. Apparently his time of 52:13 came in vain as he had to settle for the tenth place.
RESULTS
1. Fahad al-Eid (Saudi Arabia) – Natal St Martin 65/54:35
2. Khaled Abdulrahman Almobty (Saudi Arabia) – Aloha 65/55:17
3. Khaled al-Eid (Saudi Arabia) – Dona Evita – 65/59:12.
Saudi Arabia’s Fahad al-Eid was the fastest on Natal de St Martin.
