This Saturday, Messi, Boca, River, Independiente, the Atlético del Cholo, the Premier League and even Chaco for Ever in the First National, but no sporting event around the planet will be compared with the emotion and the millions of dollars in dispute that will have the Saudi Cup 2025the career of turf more lavish in the world, with the most winning horse in history and for the first time with two Argentine representatives in the cats.
It will almost two minutes that will take them to the fourteen competitors to cover the 1800 meters of earth and sand from the start to the album on the hippodrome clue King Abdulaziz, in Riad, Saudi Arabia. The winner will take 10 million dollars of a total bag of 20 millionwhich makes this career inaugurated in 2020 into the most profitable at the economic level of the entire Group 1 of International Hipism.
In the raffle of the departure locations, this Thursday, all the eyes were put in the fate of Romantic Warrioran Irish puras who will turn 7 in March and could be considered as the Goat in the Burrero atmosphere: he won 17 of the 22 races in which he participated (the last nine in a row), with triumphs in the most emblematic races of Hong Kong, Japan, Dubai and Australia, and accumulate profits for 22.5 million dollarssurpassing other emblematic horses such as the American Argate, who died from Euthanasia in 2020 leaving an accumulated of 17.4 million in the bank accounts of its owner.
The Neocender James McDonald It is Romantic Warrior’s jockey, and it was his wife Katelyn in charge of choosing Bolilla 3 that determined the location of the favorite duo in the previous one. “We are happy, we came to the raffle without expectation,” McDonald, 33,, a member of the Hall of Fame of his country in the discipline, and with 108 victories under his credit. JMACAs they say, he trusts his horse: “He is performing very well on Earth, the whole team is very happy, and has a really good exit speed.” Infallible on the grass, the change of surface in Riyader can twist the fate of the competition. Attentive to that alternative will be some of the challengers: the Japanese Forever Youngthe American Rattle N’ Roll and the British Walk Of Starsamong others.
The Saudi Cup 2025 will be suffered in Riyadh but also in Buenos Aires. The race will be the third of the Official Race Program of the Palermo Racecourse, where in those moments the screens will broadcast live what happens in the Middle East and the fans can bet on the two Argentine representatives, Intense for me y The kodethe only South Americans in Saudi soil.
Intense for Me, winner of Carlos Pellegrini Grand Prize Last December by means of the Kodeter in a final emotional, it will leave from the second door, catchy to Romatic Warrior. Fortify’s son got into the window to the sixth edition of the Saudi Cup, from the list of substitutes, thanks to the casualties in the last weeks of White Abarrio and Locked. This time, the pride of Toroquemero Stud He will not have Martín Javier Valle in the reins but will have the experience of Colombian Jockey Camilo Ospinabased several seasons ago in Arabia and eleventh in last year’s race.
In the mountain of El Kode Stud Juan Antoniowill be an old acquaintance of the Argentine Turf, GUSTAVO CALVENTEwho already ran at the King Abdulaziz in 2021 but above another endearing horse, Miriñaque. “It was a dream week, I lived something wonderful with Miriñaque, a beautiful experience,” Pintita recently recalled, in a talk with the middle Turf Diar. And he added, with enthusiasm: “While we compete on the grass, we work in the sand and it is the guy like the kode Maroñas than to Palermo, and already won in both … “.
The Kodeter, son of Equal Stripes and considered a specialist on the sand, arrives with more days of training and rest after the trip to Riad. In addition, with the confidence given by the recent consecration in the Grand Prize José Pedro Ramírezthe most important race in Uruguay. “It is the best horse I ran in my life,” he repeats Calvent, and there is no better definition for an animal that won nine fourteen races, inclined five major awards. The one born in Rojas, province of Buenos Aires, who this week turned 38, returned to the activity after overcoming cancer and dreams of making history: the Campanazo From the door 13.
The Kodeter, the Argentine horse who promises to fight in the Saudi Cup.The race will not last more than two minutes and is scheduled to start at 14.40, Argentine time, and can be seen From our country by TV with live broadcast through the Disney+ platform from 13.30. Will there be confirmation and glory for Romantic Warrior? Will it be time for surprise and Argentine flag flying in Riyadh? The appointment is already made, in the meantime sports vertigo.