Addeybb bows out with Group Three victory in France (Photo: focusonracing.com)
William Haggas revealed
Addeybb will head for a well-deserved retirement having pulled out all the stops to land the Prix du Conseil de Paris at ParisLongchamp on Sunday.
The globetrotting star – whose record includes three Group One victories in Australia, beating Verry Elleegant in all of them – has had to sit and wait for most of the season with the dry summer and fast ground conspiring against the mud-loving eight-year-old.
However, he enjoyed one last day in the sun in the French capital, motoring home in the closing stages of the one-mile-three Group Two to reel in second-favourite Monty under an inspired
Tom Marquand.
It was the 13th win in a 28-race career which has taken in races all around the world, and the Somerville Lodge handler was keen to pay tribute to a “fantastic servant” and “marvellous horse” following his victorious swansong.
“I’m absolutely thrilled to bits and we would like to call it a day with him now,” Haggas told the PA news agency.
“He’s been a fantastic servant and it is wonderful he has finished on a high. So we’ll retire him now.
“He’s been magnificent and has taken us across the world. He did us proud in Australia, he’s won a Champion Stakes at Ascot, he’s been a marvellous horse. Obviously on heavy ground he is very effective, and we were keen to finish on a winning note. Now he has done we’ll let him enjoy a wonderful retirement.
“He means a lot to the yard, he’s been a friend to all of us. Kind, sweet-natured horse, just a lovely horse. This is just a great result today.”
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Re-live the best of the action from the 30th anniversary of the Dubai World Cup meeting at Meydan! US raider Magnitude captured the feature $20 million Dubai World Cup, getting the better of hot favourite Forever Young.
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When Dubai welcomed the world to old Nad Al Sheba Racetrack for the first time in 1996, 'America's Horse' Cigar repelled what seemed an inevitable challenge from compatriot Soul of the Matter to help cement Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's goal of creating a worldwide spectacle in the Emirates.
The eyes of the racing public were on sprawling Meydan Racecourse for the 30th renewal of the event - at $12 million now worth triple the original pot - and Forever Young, looking to complete an unprecedented sequence of the world's three richest races on dirt. Ultimately it was not meant to be, as Magnitude took control right out of the stalls and Forever Young - doing his best to reel him in - ran out of real estate.
Having missed the G1 Saudi Cup - won with less energy expenditure than in 2025 by Forever Young - Magnitude prepped with a soft victory in Grade 3 company and was a reasonably fresh horse. He hit the ground running from gate one, going along smoothly for Jose Ortiz while tracked along by Forever Young and Saudi Cup third Tumbarumba.
Still travelling strongly into the final 800 metres, Magnitude was asked for acceleration nearing the entrance to the straight and left Forever Young a bit flat-footed, putting about two lengths on the reigning Breeders' Cup Classic winner. Still clear at the furlong marker, Magnitude rolled away from the inside, but the best Forever Young could do was to get to the Not This Time colt's tail at the wire.
Meydaan won a photo for third, well behind the top two.
“We knew we had a very good horse, but obviously Forever Young is the best horse in the world,” said winning jockey Jose Ortiz.
As for race strategy, Ortiz added: “We left all the options open - if he jumps well we can go to the lead, if somebody jumps better than him, just sit off, maybe behind the speed. He didn't have a running start, but he jumped well and I knew it was time to go. I asked him to run and he was there for me.”
Added winning trainer Steve Asmussen, who took the 2008 World Cup with Curlin and sent out Gun Runner to be second in 2017: “What an incredible win. We just wanted to let him to run his race from point A to point B. The horse is running with a lot of confidence and that gave us confidence. It unfolded just how we wanted it to.”
Ortiz said the celebrations will be rather muted ahead of an early morning flight back to the United States on Sunday.
"I'm not used to racing late at night under lights," he said. "I'm hungry, I want to go and eat! We fly pretty early tomorrow so I'd rather wait and celebrate with my family and friends. Maybe we'll have a cookout."
Forever Young's trainer Yoshito Yahagi believes that the Meydan track "doesn't seem to suit" his horse, having finished third in the Dubai World Cup last year. He did win the G2 UAE Derby on the track in 2024, but it was a workmanlike success that rated below the rest of his performances at three.
“Everything went the way we planned but the winner was good today," said Forever Young's regular partner Ryusei Sakai.
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Calandagan showed why he is officially the best horse in the world when running down long-time front-runner West Wind Blows in the Dubai Sheema Classic.
Francis-Henri Graffard’s five-year-old suffered defeat in this contest 12 months ago but would end the year top of the world standings after a winning run which began on home soil at Saint-Cloud and would then involve an Ascot double before ending the year with an historic triumph in the Japan Cup.
It was Simon and Ed Crisford’s West Wind Blows who slipped the field who raced in single file for the majority of the contest.
Rounding the bend for home Calandagan had just Breeders’ Cup Turf hero Ethical Diamond behind him with Rossa Ryan still going strong aboard West Wind Blows. But an ice-cool Mickael Barzalona refused to panic and his mount soon began closing the distance with a sublime finishing effort.
He would pass his rival to earn a pat down the neck from his jockey, registering a three-quarters of a length success and teeing-up an exciting summer.
Graffard, celebrating his first winner in Dubai, said: “I’m relieved, the winter was long and he’s a world champion now and has a big reputation so we just needed to start and get the season going.
“It was a big race today and it’s always hard to have a horse completely ready for a race like that, I said to Mickael he might need the race. It was tactical and painful to watch but he’s a champion.
“Mickael and him get on well now but during the race he was a little on and off the bridle and on the last bend he was asking him to go. I think he needed the run and to get going, but it is now five Group Ones in a row and he’s a real champion so I’m glad Princess Zahra (owner) decided to start the season here.”
He went on: “I don’t know where we will go but he knows how to travel and enjoys his life.
“He’s a real champion and today was a big goal and my first winner in Dubai so I’m very happy.
“He’s important for the sport and a flagship horse so we won’t be afraid to travel.”
The Sheema Classic serves as a ‘win and you’re in’ for the Breeders’ Cup Turf which will this year be run at Keeneland and while accepting that could fit into Calandagan’s schedule, the one certainty seems that international competition will definitely be on the agenda.
Graffard added: “The Breeders’ Cup could be an option and I don’t see why not, but it might depend if we go back for the Japan Cup again. They are very hard races to win and American tracks are quite tight also, so it might not really suit his abilities.
“The Cox Plate could be a possible especially this year at Flemington which is a big galloping track, but we don’t want to be too greedy and we need to think about it and respect the horse.
“I said to Princess Zahra I hope your passport is OK, because we are going to travel.”
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