{"id":337790,"date":"2025-08-12T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337790\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T06:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:50:13","slug":"shergar-cup-at-iconic-ascot-indian-jockey-suraj-narredu-creates-history-more-sports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337790\/","title":{"rendered":"Shergar Cup: At iconic Ascot, Indian jockey Suraj Narredu creates history | More sports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123251102.jpg\" alt=\"Shergar Cup: At iconic Ascot, Indian jockey Suraj Narredu creates history\" title=\"ASCOT, ENGLAND - AUGUST 09: Jockey Suraj Narredu reacts after riding Fireblade to win the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Stayers during the at Ascot Racecourse on August 09, 2025 in Ascot, England. (Photo by Harry Murphy\/Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>ASCOT, ENGLAND &#8211; AUGUST 09: Jockey Suraj Narredu reacts after riding Fireblade to win the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Stayers during the at Ascot Racecourse on August 09, 2025 in Ascot, England. (Photo by Harry Murphy\/Getty Images) India\u2019s top jockey Suraj Narredu created history by becoming the first-ever Indian to register a win at the iconic Ascot (London) when he guided the three-member Team Asia to a scintillating victory in the Shergar Cup, a four-team horse racing competition, on Saturday evening.Suraj-led Team Asia \u2014 making its debut this year after replacing the Ladies\u2019 team \u2014 secured victory in two of the six races and claimed a decisive second place in a nail-biting final race, edging past Europe by just one point. Team Asia accumulated 68 points to beat Team Europe (67). Team Great Britain and Ireland were third on 62, ahead of the Rest of the World on 55. The Rest of the World\u2019s Hugh Bowman won the Silver Saddle for the best jockey of the day.\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible victory and a dream come true,\u201d Suraj, who steered Fireblade to victory in the Shergar Cup Stayers, told TOI . \u201cI\u2019m happy that the huge effort I put in before coming here as preparation for this great contest paid off. I\u2019d like to congratulate my teammates, both the Japanese jockeys, who played their part in getting us the points we needed. It\u2019s a team format, and we were able to pull it off in our first rides at Ascot.\u201dSuraj hoped that this magical victory at such a prestigious global event will get him the recognition he deserves. \u201cI hope now that other racing jurisdictions like Hong Kong and Japan will take note of this, and I\u2019ll get another chance to showcase my talent there. That would really be a dream come true as well,\u201d said the man with four Indian Derby crowns under his belt, along with more than 2,400 victories and around 110 classics across various Indian racing centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASCOT, ENGLAND &#8211; AUGUST 09: Jockey Suraj Narredu reacts after riding Fireblade to win the Dubai Duty Free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[120697,120703,120701,120700,120702,1071,120698,79,120696,120699,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-ascot-horse-racing","9":"tag-fireblade-horse-racing","10":"tag-hugh-bowman-jockey","11":"tag-indian-jockey-history","12":"tag-international-horse-racing-events","13":"tag-racing","14":"tag-shergar-cup-2023","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-suraj-narredu","17":"tag-team-asia-horse-racing","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115014469146405977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337790","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=337790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}