{"id":330994,"date":"2025-08-09T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330994\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:40:10","slug":"shergar-cup-asia-lift-ascot-title-as-ryusei-sakai-and-suraj-narredu-star-in-team-competition-racing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330994\/","title":{"rendered":"Shergar Cup: Asia lift Ascot title as Ryusei Sakai and Suraj Narredu star in team competition | Racing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 Shergar Cup went the way of Asia after a dramatic final race showdown at Ascot.<\/p>\n

Captained by Indian jockey Suraj Narredu, team Asia – new for this year’s competition after replacing the Ladies team – won two of the six races and picked up a crucial second place in a tense concluding contest to pip Europe by a single point.<\/p>\n

Narredu, joined by Ryusei Sakai and Mirai Iwata, enjoyed a “dream” success in the Stayers contest aboard Fireblade, while Sakai flew the flag for Japan after victory in the Sprint on Prince Of India.<\/p>\n

How the Shergar Cup unfolded<\/p>\n

Vintage Clarets<\/strong> had got the Rest of the World off to the perfect start, taking the Dash under the highly experienced Hugh Bowman.<\/p>\n

Team-mate Karis Teetan helped add some more points as Venture Capital came home third, with Asia’s Vespasian under Ryusei Sakai separating the two.<\/p>\n

There was a “dream come true” moment for Narredu as Fireblade<\/strong> raced clear to win the Stayers contest for team Asia.<\/p>\n

In a steadily run two-mile contest, the 40-year-old was the first to strike to repel all-comers by almost two lengths.<\/p>\n

\"Suraj<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Suraj Narredu smiles after victory at Ascot in the Shergar Cup<\/p>\n

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Robbie Dolan got Great Britain & Ireland their first victory of the day as Night Breeze <\/strong>took the Challenge.<\/p>\n

Sakai is no stranger to big winners around the world and added Ascot to his list, steering Prince Of India <\/strong>to success in the Sprint as Asia struck again.<\/p>\n

Europe then bagged its first winner of the competition as favourite Tenability<\/strong> overcame trouble in running in the 12-furlong Classic.<\/p>\n

Ridden by France’s all-time leading female jockey Delphine Santiago, Tenability was locked in behind a wall of horses early in the straight but, once the gap opened on the rail, the son of Frankel got rolling to beat Team Player and Dario Di Tocco by a neck.<\/p>\n

\"Narredu<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Narredu celebrates as Fireblade win the Shergar Cup Stayers<\/p>\n

Ebt’s Guard<\/strong> (13-2) won the Mile under Per-Anders Graberg, but his Europe team agonisingly fell short in the competition as Asia won by a point.<\/p>\n

Asia triumphed overall with a score of 68 from Europe on 67, Great Britain and Ireland were third on 62 ahead of the Rest of the World on 55.<\/p>\n

Hugh Bowman won the Silver Saddle for leading rider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Shergar Cup went the way of Asia after a dramatic final race showdown at Ascot. Captained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114999802256069419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}