Trainer Rashed Bouresly enjoys best day of the season with double at Jebel Ali

Rashed Bouresly enjoyed his best day of the season with a double as three of his other horses finishing in the money at the Jebel Ali racecourse on Friday. The Dubai-based Kuwaiti trainer has been struggling to get a winner since Celtic Prince was successful at Meydan on December 5. To win two prizes in one day was a welcome change. Fabrice Veron was on board his first winner Alla Mahlak in the second race and Adrie de Vries atop Davy Lamp half hour later completed the double for Bouresly. The trainer wasn’t present on the day but Veron was all praise for Bouresly’s determination. “I have ridden some of his horses before and I’m so glad to ride my first winner for him,” Veron said. “I know it’s been a very long time he enjoyed a winner. "His patience and perseverance has finally paid off. This horse has run some good races in defeat and he did his job well today.” Ode to Autumn scooped the biggest prize of the meeting – Dh105,000 – and completed back-to-back victories over the course and distance for Satish Seemar and Richard Mullen, the trainer-jockey partnership. “He won here 40 days ago and today with 61-kilos to carry, I think, it was a good effort,” Seemar said of the five-year-old Showcasing gelding who previously won with 56.5kg on his back. “It is tough once you come up the hill [at Jebel Ali] with that kind of weight and that’s what makes a good handicapper from an average handicapper. If he can do what he did a couple of times, he can go to the next level of racing. “He seems to like the Jebel Ali track. Once you have a horse that likes Jebel Ali, it would be great to bring him back here and not worry much about racing him elsewhere. We’ll give him one more race this season and bring him back next season.” Mullen was impressed with the win under top weight and said the trip and track certainly played to his strength. “He’s a big horse and likes to point his toe and use his stride,” Mullen said. “I was impressed because it takes a good one to win here under top weight. The last furlong was like slow motion for me but he was a willing partner today.” Doug Watson and his stable jockey Pat Dobbs also celebrated a double with Arch Gold and Meqdam in the fifth and sixth races. Watson completed a treble when Sam Hitchcott brought Native Appeal home in the seventh race. Seemar rounded off with a second winner at the meeting by taking the concluding maiden with Amani Pico under Tadhg O’Shea.

Trainer Rashed Bouresly enjoys best day of the season with double at Jebel Ali

Relief for Dubai-based Kuwaiti after struggling for a winner since Celtic Prince in December