Remorse passes first test en route to Dubai World Cup

Remorse passes first test en route to Dubai World Cup

Championship-winning Seemar and O'Shea team up to win feature at Meydan's final race meeting of 2022

Remorse, the mount of champion jockey Tadhg O'Shea, wins The Entisar, the feature race, at the Meydan Racecourse on Friday. (ERA)

By Team KT Published: Fri 23 Dec 2022, 10:51 PM

The Championship winning team of Bhupat Seemar and Tadhg O’Shea combined to win the feature race on Meydan’s concluding race meeting of 2022, when Remorse landed the Listed The Entisar.

Run over the same 2000m distance as the $12million Dubai World Cup, the contest was totally dominated by the five-year-old son of Dubawi who was sixth behind Country Grammar in the showpiece race earlier in March.

O’Shea denied big-race jockey James Doyle aboard stablemate Bendoog.

After landing a 1600m Jebel Ali handicap on his seasonal debut last November, Seemar’s charge did not win again but was runner-up in the Group 3 Jebel Ali Mile and Group 1 Al Maktoum Challenge R3 over this 2000m.

No prizes for guessing by Remorse is set to have another crack at the Dubai World Cup next year.

“That was a perfect return and I rode him as if he was the best horse in the race and the small field probably helped him. He was