Iver Bridge Lad and the John Ryan Racing team, have been invited to race at the Dubai World Cup Meeting on Saturday 31st March 2012 in the Group 1 Golden Shaheen. The Golden Shaheen is a 6f contest on Tapeta and it has the best global field assembled for this race in recent years.
Entries as Follows, with the draw taking place on Monday 26th March 2012.
Dubai Golden Shaheen, sponsored by Gulf News
Third leg of the 2012 Global Sprint Challenge
US$2,000,000 Group 1
1,200m All Weather
1 AUGUST RUSH (SAF) South Africa Herman Brown
2 GIANT RYAN (USA) USA Bisnath Parboo
3 HAPPY DUBAI (IRE) UAE Ali Rashid Al Raihe
4 HITCHENS (IRE) GB David Barron
5 INXILE (IRE) GB David Nicholls
6 IVER BRIDGE LAD GB John Ryan
7 KRYPTON FACTOR (GB) Bahrain Fawzi Nass
8 LUCKY NINE (IRE) Hong Kong Casper Fownes
9 ROCKET MAN (AUS) Singapore Patrick Shaw
10 RUSSIAN ROCK (IRE) UAE Musabah Al Muhairi
11 SEPOY (AUS) Australia Peter Snowden
12 SOUL (AUS) UAE Saeed bin Suroor
13 THE FACTOR (USA) USA Bob Baffert
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Group 3 Success for Iver Bridge Lad at Maisons Laffitte.
Silver Grecian scored a Group 2 success in 2009 and Iver Bridge lad strikes a well deserved Group 3 win for the John Ryan Racing Team in 2011.