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Al Khatry wins in style.


KHALID Al Khatry clinched victory in the Grand Prix Grand Prix  
n. pl. Grand Prix
Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course.
 class of the Breef Season-Opening Showjumping showjumping
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the sport of riding horses in competitions to demonstrate skill in jumping

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 Championship yesterday, held at the Mounted Police Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback. They continue to serve in remote areas and in metropolitan areas where their day-to-day function may be largely picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control.  Centre grounds in Budaiya.

Al Khatry, who is also a prominent endurance horse rider, steered Bashayer to top spot in the main class of the day-long event, which was organised by the Bahrain Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation (Breef).

Ten riders battled it out in the Grand Prix class, which featured a one round with jump-off. But it was Al Khatry who finished the jump-off with best time of 42.81 seconds and without any faults.

Behind him was Ali Isa, riding Al Khalidiyah Aberdeen, in 42.26 seconds but with four faults, while Basel Al Dosseri came third on Chamaecy.

Others in the fray were Maxime Moxon who came fourth, Shaikh Hasan bni Rahis Al Khalifa fifth, Yasser Al Shaikh was sixth, Sami Ghazan seventh, Hani Abdulla eighth, Abbas Isa ninth and Sami Ghazwan rounded up of the top 10.

The opening event of the 2009/10 season consisted of five other classes, including two adults, two juniors and a combined class for both.

Oscar Lauri steered Mr Bombastic to win junior one class which was a one round with jump off. Finishing in 27.45 seconds, Oscar was ahead of second-placer Laura Wilkie (27.79) who came second on Safe and Sophie Appleton (29.63) rounded up the podium on Al Khalidiya Femore.

Seven riders took part in the junior two class which was won by Natasha Owen on Duell Time in 25.82 seconds. She was followed by Ali Abdulrasool (29.05), riding Ghroob, while Hussain Al Afoo (25.71) came third on Muhajer.

A record 22 riders were in the fray in the adult one class which was a one round against the clock. Hasan Jaffar emerged winner, steering Cool to a first-place finish Noun 1. first-place finish - a finish in first place (as in a race)
win - a victory (as in a race or other competition); "he was happy to get the win"
 in 46.60 seconds. Not far behind was Amelia Boyd (46.95) in second place on Rangerino and Mahesh Amritlal (49.93) was third on Pascal.

Veteran striker Sami Ghazwan won the adult two class which was an accumulator A hardware register used to hold the results or partial results of arithmetic and logical operations.

(processor) accumulator - In a central processing unit, a register in which intermediate results are stored.
 with joker. Riding Chilli, Ghazwan completed the contest in 31.87 seconds and was followed by runner up Salman Essa (33.06) on Calypso Calypso, in Greek mythology
Calypso (kəlĭp`sō), nymph, daughter of Atlas, in Homer's Odyssey. She lived on the island of Ogygia and there entertained Odysseus for seven years.
. Raja Kiyani (36.95) came third on Uderiekus.

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 Chakkos on Dilmun Tess in second place while Kate Addison was third on Dilmun Fallah.

The event was held under the patronage of Breef president Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa and attended by Breef vice-president Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa who honoured the winners.

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Date:Oct 18, 2009
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