French leg of HH Sheikha Fatima Apprentice World Championship on Sunday

TARBES, FRANCE: Eleven young apprentice jockeys line-up for the HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship (IFAHR) race to be run at the Tarbes race course in the south of France on Sunday, October 12. The race is part of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival. Noora Al Suwaidi, Director General, U.A.E. General Women's Union, Chairman of the U.A.E.'s Women's Sports Committee, said, "Thanks to the vision of HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, Supreme President of the Family Development Foundation (FDF) and Head of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood this series took shape. We are delighted that there are quite a few lady jockeys taking part in this race in Tarbes and that is also our aim to promote lady jockeys as well as Apprentice jockeys." Ms Lara Sawaya, Executive Director of the HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival and Chairman of Ladies Racing Committee in the International Federation of Arabian Horse Racing Authorities (IFAHR) and Chairman of Apprentice Jockeys & Racing in IFAHR said, "This is the third leg of the HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship (IFAHR) race series introduced this year. We have stopped here in Tarbes after Sacramento in the U.S. and Newbury in the United Kingdom. The fourth race will be in Duindigt, The Netherlands and all the four winners will join Ahmed Al Subose of the U.A.E. and nine others to be named later for the final of the championship in Abu Dhabi on November 9." – Emirates News Agency, WAM – http://www.wam.ae/en/news/sports/1395270713397.html