Al Dahma (Amer/Al Hanoof) held off her full brother General in the Qatar International Trophy Championship at Rayyan Park last night to add another Group 1 win to her record. It was a good night for Umm Qarn Farm, with three other wins from homebred horses.  Shaima (Amer/Amwaj), partnered by 16 year old Qatari lady jockey Khadija Abdulwaheed, won the Fegentri Graduation Plate; Raqiyah (Amer/Sarahmina) beat Al Shahania's Asraa Min Albarq in the stakes race and Dherwah (Djebbel / Al Johwarah) won the local bred stakes race beating Arkan Al Naif by a neck.  

Umm Qarn Farm homebred, Omaier (Amer / Marja) won the Gulf Cup at Rayyan Park in Qatar yesterday, holding off stiff opposition from Nimr (Amer/Nisaee) and Nasir Al Naif (Amer/Kesbah) in the final stages of the race.  Omaier, who had a disappointing run last time out, was running in blinkers for the first time.

This win is the sixth consecutive win in the Gulf Cup for Umm Qarn Farm, who have previously won with Mugadir, Keilan, Maleehah and Murhib - all Amer homebreds.
 

The first progeny of Nizam(Amer/Nerva du Cassou) on the racetrack, 3 year old, Qahir, won his first race on his first outing at Rayyan Park in Qatar.

Qahir is was bred by Umm Qarn Farm in Qatar and will be the only Nizam progeny racing this season, but will be followed next season by several more.  Qahir is out of Umm Qarn Farm mare, Ezraa who has also produced winners Baida and Najmat Al Sharq.

This race meeting also saw winners for two Umm Qarn Farm homebreds, both by Umm Qarn Farm stallion Djebbel;  Baraka (Djebbel / Zreig) won the Open Local bred Handicap, while Dherwah (Djebbel/Al Jowharah) won the Brouq Cup.  Djebbel son Hajaj (ex Altesse D'Aroco) won the local bred Stakes race last meeting on 26th November.

Umm Qarn Farm had a hatrick last night at Rayyan Park.  Group race winner, Raqiyah (Amer/Saraminah) beat stablemate Al Anqa by five lengths in the Derby Trial Cup for imported and local bred three year olds, to take her number of wins to five.  Her full sister Tameemah won the Derby Trial Cup for four years olds and Omaier (Amer/Marja) won the Derby Trial Cup for 4 year olds.   Saeq (Sambist/Noorah), who has been entered in the Sale of Horses on 20th November at the REC in Qatar won the opening race, bringing his career total to 30(11-7-5).

Stallion fees for 2010 are as follows.  For further information about each stallion, including pedigree, profile and progeny select the stallions section

• Amer (Approved mares only)  £20,000 (excluding VAT)

• Nizam £4000 (excluding VAT)

• Majd Al Arab £3000 (excluding VAT)

• Djebbel £2000 (excluding VAT)

• Muneef QR10,000 (Qatar only)

• Mugadir QR10,000 (Qatar only)

• Atlantic Air (TB) QR10,000 (Qatar only)

Yesterday at Longchamp, Umm Qarn Farm's breeding success reached a  new level when GENERAL and AL DAHMA, finished first and second in the Qatar Arabian World Cup.  Ridden by Arnaud Bouleau, four year old GENERAL (Amer/Al Hanoof) won in fantastic style, beating his seven year old full sister AL DAHMA, by four lengths.  AL DAHMA, ridden by Ioritz Mendizabal, finished eight lengths clear of the third horse NASHWAN AL KHALIDIAH.  It was a high class field of 21 runners, run immediately after a vintage Arc de Triomphe won by the incredible SEA THE STARS.

The two horses, trained by Alban de Mieulle in Qatar, are out of the Group 1 winning mare AL HANOOF (Manganate/Pesennaia) .  They are the second generation of Group 1 winners bred at Umm Qarn Farms UK. 

GENERAL has always showed great promise and has now proved himself to be the best four year old Arabian in training.  He will shortly return to Qatar for the winter season where he will be sure to shine in some of the major races in the Gulf.

Gulf Times Article (with photos)

Al Anqa (Amer/Altesse D'Aroco) won her first Group 1 race on Friday with an impressive win the the Qatar French Arabian Breeders Challenge at Saint Cloud racecourse in Paris, France.

In only her fourth run, after a win in Zayed first Arabian Cup in Frankfurt in August, Al Anqa, ridden by David Bouland, showed her class over 2000m, beating Spleen and Salma Thabeth.

In the Group 1 four year old race, Tameemah (Amer/Sarahmina) was placed third.

Al Anqa  (Amer/Altesse D'Aroco) won the top Arabian race at Frankfurt in the Zayed the First Arabian Cup over 1600m, beating Swiss-trained Nil Ishan Ibn Al Sakbe and the strong german contender, Terach El Samawi.  Shayea made the running at the start of the race, but Al Anqa accelerated well into the final straight for her first win from three races.

Al Dahma claimed her 11th Group 1 win in the Shadwell Dubai International Stakes at Newbury yesterday by beating defending champion, No Risk Al Maury, in a close four horse finish. 

Hespeshal and Magic du Loup set the early pace  while Al Dahma settled quietly in the rear of the field for the first half of the race.  In the final straight, No Risk Al Maury took the lead with Al Dahma following closely.  Al Dahma took the lead in the final furlong of the race to beat No Risk Al Maury by a neck.  Fryvolous and Al Fatih (bred by Umm Qarn and sold to France) tied third in a dead heat only a short head behind.

Al Dahma won the Coupe D'Europe at Chantilly in France on 31st May 2009.  Winning the Group 1 race for the second time (previously in 2006) she beat Badad (Tidjani/Balaam) by a length and half over 2000m. 

Umm Qarn Farm's Keilan, won the Sheikh Nasser Bin Abdullah Al Thani Cup at Rayyan Park, beating Zaeem Al Shajaa and setting a record number of wins in the local bred Pure Arabians category. 

Fakhr (Amer/Geran) - full brother to Group 1 winner Mutabahi - had his second win in the Al Naif Stud Handicap, beating stable mate Jusoor (Amer/Dermech).

Djebbel filly Baraka, fought a close race in the Umm Al Salba Maiden Plate to beat Delila by a head.

Umm Qarn Farm bred, and now sold, Arrak (Amer/Eudoksja) won the third race.

Al Dahma won the Emir's Sword last night, narrowly beating her full brother General, with Khattaf (Djebbel/Altesse D'Aroco) third.

Significantly, nine of the thirteen runners in the $1,000,000 race (and all first seven placed horses) were born and raised at Old Lodge Farm, Umm Qarn's stud in England.

Murhib (Amer/Kachia) had an easy win in the Emir's Trophy beating Al Shahania's Amer son, Assil, with Umm Qarn's Dherwah (Djebbel/Al Jowharah) third.

Dherwah (Djebbel/Al Jowharah) won an exciting race to win the Al Zubara Cup over 1850m. She held off a late challenge by 2005 winner Intifadah (Amer/Histoire de Faust) to secure the Al Zubara Cup Trophy for Umm Qarn Farms for the eighth time since 1996. The Cup was previously won three times in a row by UQF's appropriately named, Al Zubarah, who is out of the same dam, Al Jowharah, as this years victor, Dherwah.  Al Jowharah has now been sold but Umm Qarn Farm has her two year old filly by Dahess in pre-race training currently.

In other races during the meet at Rayyan Park, there were three more homebred wins.

Tameemah (Amer/Sarahmina) won her first Handicap (rated 20-60) following her win in a Maiden Plate in January, beating Petit Loup, the leader for most of the race over 1400m. 

Haija (Amer/Adjaa D'Aroco) had her first win, second time out, beating Royal Al Mels by half a length in the Maiden Plate.

Baida (Concord/Ezraa) won the Local bred Maiden Plate over 1600m on her first time out, beating Insijaam by 3/4 length.  Baida's victory maintains Umm Qarn Stallion Concord's 100% winner/runner with his fourth runner.

Al Dahma returns to winning form in Group 1 Qatar International Trophy
26th February 2009

Al Dahma beat Al Shahania Farm's Jaafer (Amer/Madjela) by 3/4 length with her full brother, General, a length behind in third.  Al Dahma has now won eight Group 1 races and a has a career total of 18 wins. Al Dahma, General and Jaafer were born and raised at Umm Qarn Farm in UK before beginning their racing careers in Qatar.

In other races on the night, Umm Qarn's Keilan won his 17th local bred race and Djebbel son Khattaf won the Stakes race, bringing his total of wins to three in his first Qatar season.

Umm Qarn Farm win Gulf Cup for the fifth year running
25th February 2009

Earlier in the evening Omaier, full brother to Maleehah (winner of 15 of her 17 races), won his first maiden.

More wins for Umm Qarn Farm homebreds
12th February 2009

The second race, a Maiden Plate, was won by Damis, full brother to Keilan, Mugadir and Murhib.  Another winning son for Umm Qarn Farms excellent broodmare Kachia

Concord daughter, Shadhah (ex Jaljalah) won the third race, a local bred Maiden Plate, convincingly by five lengths from Insijaam.  This is Concord's third winner.

Al Shahania's Amer son, Falak (ex Feline du Cassou) won the Stakes race over 2000m from Dorki Lotois and Dynamite by 3 lengths and 2.5 lengths respectively.

Al Dahma's full brother, General, wins Al Karana Cup
11th February 2009

General, full brother to Al Dahma, made it three wins out of three races, when he won the Al Karana Cup to beat Dorhein de Brugere by a neck.  Seemingly hopelessly placed in the final run, General showed an amazing turn of speed in the final 25 yards. 

Mukheefah, by Djebbel ex Nasrat, who was second in HH The Heir Apparent Sword this season, brought her win total to twelve from 14 races when she beat Princess du Pouy and Izabella in the Losail Cup.  Another Umm Qarn Farm Djebbel filly, Dherwah, ex Al Jowharah, improved on her second last time out, to beat Al Aarandas by a neck in the Local Bred Handicap (rated 0-60).

First time runner, Jusoor (Amer/Dermech) won his race, beating Mao Al Maury by 1.5 lengths.

In another race, Amer son Nasir Al Naif narrowly beat Umm Qarn's Omaier (Amer/Marja)

Ex Umm Qarn Farm stallion Top Flyte maintains his 100% winners from runners record

Photo: Sofia Nordin

"Sanovagans first "real" win!

Yesterday Sanovagan (4 yo c Top Flyte x Golmohar/Gokart) had his first
"real win" at Täby Galopp in Stockholm.
Sanovagan (the only 4YO in the race) was in front more or less the
entire race in this his third race. At the stretch he eased down when
he was some 5 lengths before 2nd horse (Shams Tore) to have a look at
the crowd and floodlights. The win was only by 1,5 lengths and then
another 9 down to third horse - veteran Exir,

Rider, Swedish jockey champion PA Gråberg, said that "it is so easy
for him. He just goes in front an stays just as much in front as he
has to. When it gets "lonely" he slows down, but he is still very green."

This was actually Sanovagan's 2nd time as "first at the wire". In his
first race he won by 2,5 lengths but was moved down to 2nd for
"interfering".

This now means that Sanovagan now makes sure his father (Top Flyte)
keeps his great breeding record with 100% winners from runners!"
 

Murhib wins HH The Heir Apparent Sword in Qatar
28/29th January 2009

Photo courtesy Juhaim QREC

At the two day race meet at Rayyan Park, Murhib (Amer/Kachia) stormed home to win the Heir Apparent  Sword Race by four lengths from Mukheefah (Djebbel/Nasrat) and Assil (Amer/Arc de Ciel). This was Murhib's first race over 2400m.  Murhib's race record currently stands at 9(7-0-2) including a Group 1 place and a Group 2 and Group 3 win.

Al Dahma returned to the racetrack after a year's break and proved a threatening challenger to Al Shahania's Jaafer (Amer/Madjela), being only just beaten by a neck in the Heir Apparent Trophy. 

Al Dahma's full brother, General, won his second race on his second outing on the first day of the meeting in the 0-70 rated Handicap over 1600m.

Photo courtesy Juhaim QREC

The previous day Al Shahania's Amer son, Theeb won the Sheikh Abdulla Bin Khalifa Al Thani - Special Advisor to the Emir Cup - a Graduation Plate, narrowly beating Umm Qarn's Khattaf (Djebbel/Altesse D'Aroco).  Hadab Al Naif (Amer/Idole de Carrere) won the Local bred Handicap (rated 0-80).

These wins bring the Amer progeny win total to 359.

Concord Progeny win -  27th November 2008

Five wins in Qatar - 20th November

It was a great race meet too for Umm Qarn stallion Djebbel whose progeny had three wins.  Full brothers, Khattaf and Hajaj won their respective races, and Mukheefah also won in convincing style.

Amer progeny take first three places in Group 3 in UK

Success for Amer progeny at Dubai International Race Day in UK

20 July 2008

In the other Group 1 race of the day ,Al Shahania's  Jaafer ASF, ex Madjela and bred at UQF in UK, was second to No Risk Al Maury in the Shadwell Dubai International Stakes by 1 and 1/4 lengths.

The final race of the day, The Emirates Horse Breeders Society Handicap Stakes was won convincingly by another Amer, Falak (ex Feline du Cassou), also owned by Al Shahania and bred in UK.
 

Qatar Bred Maleehah wins Group 1 race in France          

03 June 2008

Photo courtesy of Enduranceworldonline.com

Umm Qarn homebred Maleehah (Amer/Marja) became the first Qatar bred winner of a Group 1 race in France when she won the Coup D'Europe des Chevaux Arabes at St Cloud Racecourse yesterday.

Maleehah has raced successfully in Qatar over the past two years, winning fifteen of her seventeen starts and being placed in the Group 1 HH the Emir's Sword, but she proved yesterday that she can also win outside Qatar, with her convincing performance over 2000m beating Lahib (Kairouan de Jos/Etoile du Loup) by 1.5 lengths.

AMER sires winners of over 300 races!

With the successes last week of KEILAN, ASRAA MIN ALBARQ  and FALAK, the story of our wonderful stallion AMER just gets better and better.   Now 24 years young, he still looks amazing and is fully booked for the 2008 season with some superb mares.    He has now sired the winners of over 40 Group 1 Races and has many more stunning progeny waiting in the wings.   He passes on his superb conformation, speed, temperament and, above all, the will to win. 

These victories bring Amer's total of winning progeny to 298 of which 38 are Group 1 wins.

Al Dahma wins Qatar International Trophy

It was a good night for Umm Qarn Farms; Najmat Al Sharq (Mutabahi/Ezraa) won the Fegentri Graduation Plate over 1600m and Hajaj (Djebbel/Altesse D'Aroco) won a local bred Stakes race.

Gulf Times Article on Al Dahma's win

Umm Qarn Farm homebreds take two top arabian races in Doha

Racing success for Umm Qarn Farm Stallions in UAE

At Nad Al Sheba on 3rd January, Djebbel had a winner with Santhal (ex Margau) in the Etisalat Weyak over 2000m.

On 5th Januuary at Sharjah, Umm Qarn Stallions had more successes; Amer progeny won two races; Al Dhafirah (ex AF Thara'a) won a UAE-bred Maiden race for four year olds, while AF Amer Tahaddi (ex Haoussa) won the Al Zobair, for 4years or over bred in UAE.  Makzan was represented by Waadi (ex Nega), trained by Gill Duffield, who won the  Dibba by more than eight lengths from Ahel.

Stallions at Stud in 2008

Sale of selected Umm Qarn horses - Rayyan Park

Rayyan Park, Qatar

Wednesday 28th November 2007 

For a list of horses for sale please click here

September 9th 2007 - Turkish and French success

Meanwhile, at Longchamps in France, Al Fatih won the Qatar Total French Arabian Breeder's Cup Classic over 2400m from Jarnin and Paris Gagner.
 

September 6th 2007

Dahess was born at the Umm Qarn's UK farm in 1999 and is by Amer out of Danie du Cassou. He has raced 41 times for Umm Qarn with 27 wins (of which 13 were Group 1 races) and 9 placings.  These included three wins of the Zabeel International in UK, victory twice in the Malazgirt International Trophy in Turkey and the Grosseto International in Italy twice also. 

Immediately after the sale Dahess was flown to Turkey for the Malazgirt International Trophy (Group 1) where he was second to Umm Qarn's Al Dahma
 

August 26th 2007

Dahess won in style on Sunday 26th August by winning the Group 1 Zabeel International Stakes at Newbury in UK for the third year in a row.  He beat Al Tibr by four lengths to win comfortably, with Nokomys (Amer/KTP Mystic Flight) owned by Jane Haddock in third.

Muneef (Amer/Massalla de Piboul) was second to No Risk Al Maury in the Group 1 Shadwell Dubai International Stakes.

August 11th 2007

June 2nd 2007

March 24th 2007

Umm Qarn Farms win Emir's Trophy and Emir's Sword

Stablemates and adversaries, Majd Al Arab and Al Dahma, battled it out in the final straight in the Group 1 Emir's Sword over 2400m.  At the finish, Majd Al Arab beat Al Dahma by half a length in a repeat of the results of the Qatar International Trophy.

In the Emir's Trophy, Maleehah beat stablemate Keilan by 1 and a quarter lengths over 2200m, while in the Qatar Championship, eight year old Dahess beat stablemate Muneef by three quarters of a length.

Gulf Times Report 25th March 2007

Sambist has left Umm Qarn to take up stud duties at Gadebrook Stud in Northamptonshire.  Sambist played a huge part in Umm Qarn's early success and contines to do so with his son SAEQ having won four of his five starts in Qatar and we wait with keen anticipation for the arrival of his foal out of Danie du Cassou which is due in early March.

Sambist was the greatest staying racehorse of modern times and probably the best horse ever to have been exported from Russia.  He has it all; ability, looks, intelligence and temperament.  We hope he will be very successful for his new owners, Alan Brooks and Anne Brown of Gadebrook Stud.

1st March 2007

Majd Al Arab and Al Dahma were both bred by Umm Qarn Farms in UK and spent their first two years together (see photo).

4th February 2007

28th December 2006

November 2006

16th December 2006

10th October 2006

17th September 2006