Doug Whyte-Shergar Cup

Doug is a member of the 3 man ROTW team on Saturday @ Ascot ,will be good to see him riding in the UK

Great Britain

Paul Hanagan (Captain)

Hayley Turner

Jim Crowley

Ireland

Richard Hughes (Captain)

Fran Berry

Colm O'Donoghue

Europe

Olivier Peslier (Captain)

Mirco Demuro

Christophe Lemaire

Rest of the World

Doug Whyte (Captain)

Yutaka Take

Hugh Bowman

Hanagan favourite to
land top jockey award


CHAMPION jockey Paul Hanagan expected to lead his side from the front at the Shergar Cup on Saturday with the Great Britain captain favourite to land the Silver Saddle title for the jockey accumulating the most points at the meeting.


Furthermore, Hanagan and his Great Britain teammates Hayley Turner and Jim Crowley are the short-priced favourites to land the overall competition in front of a bumper Ascot crowd.

Great Britain are the 6-4 favourites with Ladbrokes and William Hill to beat off last year's winners Ireland and teams from Europe and the Rest Of The World in the annual jockeys' challenge.

Some of the top riders from across the globe are competing in the competition, but they are all predicted to struggle behind Hanagan who is 3-1 favourite to land the individual prize with Victor Chandler.

The jockey, who is odds-on favourite to become champion jockey again, is looking forward to competing in his first Shergar Cup and feels it is "interesting" that he is favourite to win the Silver Saddle.

"I'm really looking forward to the Shergar Cup at Ascot and I'm getting a massive kick out of representing my country and being captain of the Great Britain side," Hanagan wrote on his lovetheraces.com blog.


"If I can't win then I'll be rooting for my team mates Hayley Turner and Jim Crowley but there will be good banter between the other teams in thechanging room which makes it all the more enjoyable."

He continued: "I think the home team have a good book of rides and it's interesting that I've been singled out as favourite to win the Silver Saddle as top rider at the meeting.

"I don't know if that's justified because you can get some funny results in this type of event. Some of the horses just benefit from a change of hands and a completely different style of riding. You only have to go back to past Shergar Cups to see that."

The going at Ascot for the Shergar Cup, which begins early at 12.50pm to allow Channel 4 to cover the meeting for the first time, is good to soft on the straight course and good to soft, soft in places on the round course after 17mm of rain on Thursday.

Dougies best ride maybe Swift Alhaarth in the 4th??

Richard Hughes always seems to do well at this meeting

We need to find a double or something for today Hibs...

Three for today

Ascot 6 - Firebeam
Newmarket 7 - Bakoura
Haydock 4 - Heavenly Dawn

Add Pekan Star @ Newmarket

Okay will add and take a yankee for some interest...(tu)

Race 1 - Dubai Dynamo eachway

Greg was Desert Gazelle not that horse we liked(running newmarket)?

I see the Jocks are not wearing the owners colours..thats disgusting,lets make a big thing of it <