Shergar Cup Receives Purse Hike

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The Aug. 10 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup has received a purse boost of £90,000 on Tuesday, bringing the total prize money on offer up to £360,000, Ascot Racecourse announced. Each race on the card–limited to 10 runners per race–will feature a purse of £60,000 and no entry fees, with purses paid out to last place. The team captains are Tadhg O’Shea (Great Britain & Ireland), Filip Minarik (Europe), Yuga Kawada (Rest of the World) and Hayley Turner (Girls Team), with the teams still being finalized. Among the other riders revealed so far are Danny Tudhope, Vincent Ho, Jamie Kah and Nanako Fujita.

There will also be 200 complimentary Queen Anne Enclosure tickets available to racing staff delivered through RacingGroom.com in partnership with the National Trainers Federation (NTF). Full details of how racing staff can apply will be confirmed shortly. Besides a concert with Jessie J among other musicians on tap after the races, there is also £5,000 of special prizes available to active racing staff with runners on the day.

“The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup takes place at a competitive time of year in the ratings band in which we operate,” said Ascot Director of Racing and Communications Nick Smith. “Jockeys ride for total event prize money of £20,000 in addition to their race prize money percentages. In Danny Tudhope, who leads the British jockeys’ championship and rode four winners at Royal Ascot, and in star Japanese jockey, Nanako Fujita, that nation’s highest profile female rider ever and winner of the recent Women Jockeys’ World Cup at Bro Park in Sweden, we have two of the most ‘of the moment’ jockeys riding at present.”

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