Nasser Mohamed al-Hajri’s Gazwan Al Nasser retained his title of Champion Stallion winning gold in the Championship round of the 5th Qatar National Arabian Horse Show for Individual Owners at the Indoor Arena of Al Shaqab on Sunday.
Al-Hajri was the proud owner on the day with his mare Wasa winning gold in the Senior Mares category.
Gazwan Al Nasser had won the 4th edition of the show a year ago and had also topped the 19th Qatar National Purebred Arabian Horse Show in December 2016.
The stallion made through to the Championship round after topping Class 11-12 for 7-10-year-olds and 11-year-old and older stallions earlier in the day.
Gazwan Al Nasser beat Saad Salem al-Hajri’s D Daffer, winner of Class 10 for 4-6-year-old stallions, in the finale, while Al Reeh Stud’s Om El Sanadeed, who had finished runner up behind Gazwan Al Nasser in the Class event, was awarded bronze.
Wasa, who had won Class 9 for 11-year-old and older mares on Saturday, was adjudged the Champion Mare ahead of
silver champion Al Jazeera, the Al Sraiya Stud-owned mare
who topped Class 7A for 4-6-year-old mares for her place in Sunday’s Championship round.
Al Reeh Stud’s Ag Di Giada, winner of Class 8 for 7-10-year-old mares on Saturday, won bronze.
Class 1B (Yearling Fillies) winner Dheba El Msareer, owned by El Msareer Stud, emerged as the gold champion in the Junior Fillies Championship.
The yearling topped the round ahead of Al Sraiya Stud’s D Jazah and Al Thaqab Stud’s Tamure Ms, who won silver and bronze respectively.
Al Sraiya Stud had to settle for silver in the Junior Colts Championship too after Abdulla Misnad al-Misnad owned Diab was adjudged as the champion, while Mai Ahmad Saad Abdul Aziz al-Boinin’s Naif Al Zaeem won bronze.