Shergar Cup increases prize-money for 2019

Ascot Racecourse has announced that the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup (Saturday 10th August) will be run for £360,000, a total increase of £90,000.

Each race will be run for £60,000 (2018: £45,000) and as normal, there are no entry fees to run.

Tadhg O'Shea, Filip Minarik, Yuga Kawada and Hayley Turner have been confirmed as team captains for the 2019 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup. Hayley, who captained the Girls team to victory, is back, and will be joined by Jamie Kah from Australia, and recent Women Jockeys' World Cup winner Nanako Fujita.

Nick Smith, Director of Racing and Communications at Ascot, said: "The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup takes place at a competitive time of year in the ratings band in which we operate.

"Framing races to provide quality horses, appropriate to the quality of riders we invite to ride in the event, is important, and we hope that £60,000 handicaps, in limited fields of 10, with prize money down to last place, and no entry fees to pay, will add further appeal for owners and trainers.

"We are conscious that owners allow us to allocate jockeys on their behalf, and horses run in team colours as opposed to their own, so we want to make running financially attractive as well as providing first class race day hospitality."