Adrie de Vries and Fawzi Nass celebrate hat-trick at Meydan

Adrie de Vries and Bahraini trainer Fawzi Nass combined to take home three of the eight prizes that were up for grabs at Meydan Racecourse on Sunday.

The jockey-trainer partnership reeled off three races in-a-row and then narrowly missed a fourth when second on Kanood in the sixth race.

James Doyle rides Algiers to victory in the Group 2 Al Maktoum Challenge Round-2 at Meydan on Friday, February 3, 2023. – Adiyat Racing PLus

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Shake Hand gave the pair the first win in the second race, a convincing triumph for the American bred Honor Code colt in the four-runner turf maiden over 1,400-metres.

“This looked a good opportunity on paper and the colt took full advantage, doing it well,” De Vries said.

They were back in the winner’s enclosure 35 minutes later with Sharar. The Gun Runner colt has been improving with every run and broke his maiden tag at the fourth attempt, coming home four lengths clear of Francois Herholdt and Capla Crusader.

“That was only his fourth start and just second on turf. He was very professional today and surprised me just how well he won,” De Vries added.

Go Soldier Go did even better. He won by five and-a-half lengths from Antonio Fresu and Oasis Moon. It was also the Tapiture colt’s first success having finished third in his first two starts, and runner-up last time.

Doug Watson and his stable jockey Dobbs completed a double. The pair took the sixth race with Sari Dubai and the concluding handicap with Exciting Days.

The two winners took Watson’s tally to 31 winners to consolidate his lead in the UAE trainers' championship, six ahead of Bhupat Seemar and Ernst Oertel, who is on 22.