The "Saudi
Cup" for horse racing enters the Guinness Book of Records
The 2022 Saudi Cup for Horse Racing has achieved an
achievement in addition to the successive Saudi achievements, by entering the
Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive race in the world.
Prince Bandar bin Khalid Al-Faisal, head of the
Equestrian Authority and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Horse Racing
Club, will receive the international certificate, in the presence of a
representative from the Guinness World Records.
The Saudi Cup was able to break records as the most
expensive horse race in the world, with a financial prize of 20 million
dollars, which is part of the total value of the Saudi Cup race, which amounts
to 33.1 million dollars as the most expensive horse racing prizes in the world.
And "Guinness" indicated that the Saudi Cup broke the record as the
largest financial prize in the world for a horse race, by 20 million dollars
(15.22 million pounds), which was hosted by King Abdulaziz Racecourse, in
Riyadh, at the end of last February 2022.
The Horse Racing Club adopts a strategy that adopts
progressiveness in performance and results, through successive editions of the
Saudi Cup. The second edition in 2021 improved from the first in 2020 in all
respects, in all respects, awards, participating horses, and global presence.
In the 2022 Saudi Cup, the club not only competed
itself, but also broke the world records as the most expensive prizes for horse
racing internationally, as the prize for the main half amounted to 20 million
dollars, and the total prizes in the tournament increased from 33.1 million
dollars to 35.1 million dollars, in addition to The number and level of
participating horses globally.
For his part, Prince Bandar bin Khalid Al-Faisal
expressed his pride in the role played by the Saudi Cup in preserving the sport
of fathers and grandfathers, and transferring Saudi culture and civilization to
the world.
Prince Bandar stressed that the world’s warmth and
interest in the Saudi Cup, including the recently achieved award represented by
entering the Saudi race as the most expensive run in the Guinness World Records
list, would not have been possible without God’s success and then with the
support and care of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin
Abdulaziz, may God protect him, the honorary president of the Horse Racing Club
and Directions And the unlimited support from His Highness the Crown Prince,
Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.
The first launch of the Saudi Cup in its first edition
began in 2020 under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Honorary President of the Horse Racing Club, and
direct support from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - may God protect them -
as the most expensive and largest event in the history of global horse racing,
the "Saudi Cup". On the King Abdulaziz Square in the Horse Racing Club
in Riyadh.
Its prizes amounted to $29.2 million, with the
participation of the most prominent riders of both sexes from different
countries of the world, and lasted for two days, in which the most famous
horses in the world competed. In the second edition of the Cup in 2021, the
total prizes amounted to 5.30 million US dollars, with the participation of 77
world horses from 13 countries, to compete for the Saudi Cup, whose financial
prize amounted to 20 million US dollars for first place. In the third edition
of 2022 this year, there was an increase in several aspects from the 2021
season, with the prize for the main race in which is $ 20 million, and the
total prizes in the tournament increased from $ 33.1 million to $ 35.1 million,
in addition to the participation of 240 horses in all runs from 16 countries.
globally.
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