Coach Karl Burke paid tribute to Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum following the main proprietor and breeder’s demise on Monday.
A outstanding determine in British racing for the reason that early Nineteen Nineties, Sheikh Mohammed Obaid’s yellow silks with black spots have been carried to victory within the 1998 Derby by the Luca Cumani-trained Excessive-Rise and have been sported by a number of different top-class performers since.
His different big-race victors embrace Postponed, winner of the King George and Juddmonte Worldwide, and extra lately the likes of Rosallion, Inisherin and Royal Champion.
Burke saddled the latter to win the Bahrain Worldwide Trophy simply final month and trains a variety of thrilling horses for the proprietor together with the unbeaten Joel Stakes winner Zeus Olympios, Cambridgeshire hero Boiling Level and Autumn Stakes victor Hankelow.
“It is a shock. I used to be solely speaking to him earlier at present and we mentioned all of the horses he was wanting ahead to for subsequent season,” the coach informed the Press Affiliation.
“I used to be as a result of meet him subsequent week and it is such unhappy information as a result of he beloved his horses and I do know he was actually wanting ahead to subsequent yr.
“I owe him loads. He gave me quite a lot of accountability to coach all these good horses for him and he was an excellent man.”
Sheikh Mohammed Obaid additionally owned and bred the 2023 Melbourne Cup winner With out A Struggle, whereas his undefeated Royal Lodge Stakes winner Bow Echo, educated by George Boughey, is without doubt one of the main fancies for subsequent yr’s 2000 Guineas.
A cousin of Sheikh Mohammed and a member of the ruling household of Dubai, Sheikh Obaid will go away in indelible mark on the bloodstock world by way of his mare Zomaradah, a Basic winner in her personal proper and the dam of Dubawi, who got here from the one crop of Dubai Millennium and he would go on to turn out to be the champion sire of Britain and Eire.
Coach Karl Burke paid tribute to Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum following the main proprietor and breeder’s demise on Monday.
A outstanding determine in British racing for the reason that early Nineteen Nineties, Sheikh Mohammed Obaid’s yellow silks with black spots have been carried to victory within the 1998 Derby by the Luca Cumani-trained Excessive-Rise and have been sported by a number of different top-class performers since.
His different big-race victors embrace Postponed, winner of the King George and Juddmonte Worldwide, and extra lately the likes of Rosallion, Inisherin and Royal Champion.
Burke saddled the latter to win the Bahrain Worldwide Trophy simply final month and trains a variety of thrilling horses for the proprietor together with the unbeaten Joel Stakes winner Zeus Olympios, Cambridgeshire hero Boiling Level and Autumn Stakes victor Hankelow.
“It is a shock. I used to be solely speaking to him earlier at present and we mentioned all of the horses he was wanting ahead to for subsequent season,” the coach informed the Press Affiliation.
“I used to be as a result of meet him subsequent week and it is such unhappy information as a result of he beloved his horses and I do know he was actually wanting ahead to subsequent yr.
“I owe him loads. He gave me quite a lot of accountability to coach all these good horses for him and he was an excellent man.”
Sheikh Mohammed Obaid additionally owned and bred the 2023 Melbourne Cup winner With out A Struggle, whereas his undefeated Royal Lodge Stakes winner Bow Echo, educated by George Boughey, is without doubt one of the main fancies for subsequent yr’s 2000 Guineas.
A cousin of Sheikh Mohammed and a member of the ruling household of Dubai, Sheikh Obaid will go away in indelible mark on the bloodstock world by way of his mare Zomaradah, a Basic winner in her personal proper and the dam of Dubawi, who got here from the one crop of Dubai Millennium and he would go on to turn out to be the champion sire of Britain and Eire.
