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BILLIONAIRE OWNER LOVES CUP AND G-STRINGS November 5, 2018 3:22 pm.AAP British billionaire and owner of Magic Circle Marwan Koukash Magic Circle’s owner Marwan Koukash will strip to a g-string if his horse wins the Melbourne Cup. Flamboyant British billionaire racehorse owner Dr Marwan Koukash has an extra incentive to win this year’s Melbourne Cup: he desperately wants to accept the trophy in his G-string.
The self-proclaimed “crazy owner” loves every part of the build-up to the Cup, whether it’s the annual parade in front of thousands of people or the attention he’s getting over his promise to strip.
“It’s fantastic, a fantastic experience,” he said after Monday’s parade.
“You’d have to be an absolute miserable bastard not to enjoy it.
“I’ve been enjoying every minute of being in Melbourne.”
Dr Koukash is very confident his horse Magic Circle will win the Cup and just as determined to celebrate in a way no owner has before.
“It’s the best race in the world,” he told the crowd at Federation Square.
“It’s not only the race that stops Melbourne or Australia. It stops the world.”
Then he showed off a bright pink G-string, modelling it over his jeans.
“That’s the lace that’s going to stop the nation.”
Dr Koukash rejects any suggestion he’s all talk and no action, after not following through with his threat to collect the Chester Cup wearing only a tie when Magic Circle gave him a fourth win in the big British handicap in May.
Charlie Fellowes thinks Dr Koukash won’t get the opportunity to strip, playing down Magic Circle’s win in the Chester race over the English trainer’s Cup contender A Prince of Arran.
“I don’t think you’re going to have to worry about the G-string.”
That only emboldened Dr Koukash.
“If your horse wins I’ll strip absolutely naked.”
Fellowes, who hopes to become the first British trainer to win the Melbourne Cup, described the parade experience as unbelievable.
“When I was told you’re doing a parade I thought there would be like five people lining the road, cheering with a flag or two. Maybe some friends or something,” he said.
“I didn’t realise they’d be three or four deep. It’s unreal.
“We don’t have this in England. So to come out here, have a runner in the race aged 32, five years into my training career, is a huge thrill.”
UK-based Thady Gosden described his first experience in Melbourne for the Cup as surreal.
“I’ve never seen anything like it to be perfectly honest,” said the 23-year-old, a junior assistant trainer to his father John who has Muntahaa in the race.
“It’s almost like when a football team at home wins the Premier League and they have a parade through the streets, it’s a similar type of thing to that.
“The amount of public interest in the whole event is dumbfounding really.”
Marwan Koukash
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Marwan Koukash is a businessman and racehorse owner whose horses have won races including the Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte, Cesarewitch Handicap, City and Suburban Handicap, Ayr Gold Cup and Chester Cup. He was also the owner of Salford Red Devils rugby league club until 2018.
Born: December 1958 (age 59 years), West Bank
Nationality: British
Spouse: Mandy Koukash
Residence: Manchester, United Kingdom
Education: Liverpool John Moores University
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English owner Marwan Koukash sets sights on The Everest, Sydney Cup
Sydney racing be warned, we haven’t heard the last of human headline Marwan Koukash. The flamboyant English owner is considering a Sydney Cup tilt with Magic Circle and he is keen to find a sprinter for The Everest.
Ray Thomas
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SYDNEY racing be warned, we haven’t heard the last of human headline Marwan Koukash.
The flamboyant English owner had Victoria Racing Club officials feeling very nervous with his threats to strip down to his G-string if his stayer, Magic Circle, won the Melbourne Cup. When Magic Circle ran down the track behind Cross Counter, those same officials were breathing a little easier.
But Koukash is so enamoured with Australian racing, he is considering aiming Magic Circle at the $2 million Sydney Cup during The Championships in the autumn and is already considering how to win the $14 million The Everest at Royal Randwick next spring.
Koukash is a one-man publicity machine and was tremendous theatre leading into the Melbourne Cup.
Marwan Koukash grabbed attention with his plan to strip down to a G-string if his horse Magic Circle won the Melbourne Cup. Picture: AAPSource:AAP
He would provide plenty of free publicity for the Sydney autumn carnival and The Everest next spring if he was a participant.
Koukash has struck a friendship with Everest slot-holder Damion Flower and wants to team up to try to win The Everest.
“Marwan likes the limelight, but I’m more a back-street guy,’’ Flower said. “But when he wants something, he goes after it.
“He told me we should go out and buy the fastest sprinter on the planet and run it in The Everest.’’
Flower is not about to cry poor but he doesn’t have the unlimited finances of his new English friend.
Koukash, who had a PhD in electrical engineering, is said to be worth $3 billion. He has made his vast fortune through property and the hotel industry, he owns the Salford Red Devils in the English Super League and is keen to buy a NRL team.
But Flower may not need to look too far to persuade Koukash to get involved in The Everest as that is the long-term plan for the slot-holder’s crack colt Sandbar.
Magic Circle could return in the autumn for a crack at the Sydney Cup. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images
Flower said Sandbar, who won the Listed Rosebud, ran second to Sesar in the Roman Consul Stakes and fourth to rising superstar The Autumn Sun in the Golden Rose during a commendable spring carniva returned to trainer Brad Widdup’s stables this week to begin preparations for a new year campaign.
“Finally we have Sandbar where we need him, he looks outstanding,’’ Flower said.
Widdup said Sandbar has obviously enjoyed his month-long spell.
“He has done really well, he definitely looks a lot stronger,’’ Widdup said. “He is about 30kg heavier than when we last raced him.’’
Flower said there are a “heap of options” for Sandbar in the autumn although the Oakleigh Plate is an ambition as the owner won it with the colt’s sire, champion stallion Snitzel in 2006.
“We will see how he is coming up but we would like to target a race like the TJ Smith Stakes during The Championships because a win there gets you into The Everest,’’ Flower said.
Damion Flower hopes Sandbar can develop into a contender for The Everest next year. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images
Flower and Widdup are emerging as a powerful new owner-trainer combination in Sydney racing and will be represented two runners at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.
The talented but enigmatic Chauffeur resumes in the Oh No Darren The Big Five Oh Sprint (1100m) and juvenile filly Chia is in the Girls Day Out Handicap (1200m).
Chauffeur has remained winless since scoring on debut at Rosehill nearly two years ago but he has teased Flower – and punters – with some outstanding efforts, including a second to Houtzen in the Magic Millions on the Gold Coast and a luckless sixth in the Golden Rose last year.
Widdup is trying a new tactic with Chauffeur on Saturday, going into a comeback race without a barrier trial.
“The horse looks great, when you see him in the yard (Saturday), you will be impressed. He looks like he should be running down in Melbourne,’’ Widdup said of Chauffeur. “He runs fast times on the track, he is a good worker, the ability is there but he has had niggling issues and the wet tracks haven’t helped him.
Trainer Brad Widdup and Damion Flower are emerging as a powerful new combination n Sydney racing. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images
“We realise he hasn’t delivered on his promise yet but we are trying something different this time. I deliberately haven’t trialled him so hopefully he brings his best to the races.’’
Chauffeur is superbly bred by Snitzel out of Mirror Mirror but Flower admitted there had been discussions with his part-owners Brad Hunt, John Singleton, Neil Werrett and Nick Vass whether the four-year-old should be gelded.
“We thought about it (gelding) but we just felt going into the summer, there will be no excuses as he will get firm tracks so we will see how he goes,’’ Flower said.
“He shows no bad manners, he’s a beautiful horse that way, but he needs a dry track, he doesn’t like to look at himself in a puddle. We want to get him rock-hard fit and go towards the Magic Millions carnival because you know you will get a dry track.’’
Flower said Chauffeur has matured into a striking horse and hopes he might finally realise his potential.
“Chauffeur has developed and is a bigger, stronger racehorse now,’’ Flower said.
“He has always been a calm, relaxed dude but Brad has been mixing it up with his training and the horse has got some life in him now. He has so much talent, we just haven’t seen it often enough, but we know the ability is there to win a good race.’’
Chauffeur has failed to live up to his early promise, but Brad Widdup is hoping a different training approach will bring out his best this campaign.Source:News Corp Australia
With the scratchings of Revenire and Beacon, Chauffeur is into $11 behind co-favourites Bon Amis and Sedition at $4.80.
Chia also might be over the odds for her race with the two-year-old filly rated at $10 in a five-horse field where Godolphin’s Exhilirates is the $2 favourite ahead of the unbeaten Sebrakate ($2.90). Widdup said Chia has trained on well since her debut third behind Interpidacious at a Canterbury night meeting last month.
“Chia only had one barrier trial on the Pro-ride at Warwick Farm before her Canterbury run so I thought her effort was good,’’ Widdup said.
“Her coat has really come on since, she looks excellent, and we put the blinkers on her on Tuesday morning and she went really, really well. Unless there is a real superstar in the field I think she will be more than competitive on Saturday.’’
Chia, named after the Malaysian model and actress Amber Chia and raced in the same ownership as Sandbar, is from the first crop of Flower’s former brilliant sprinter and boom young sire Rubick.
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The progeny of Rubick have yet to win a race but already have made a big impression with a string of placings in feature juvenile races so far this spring.
“The Rubicks have hit the ground running, they have had some Group placings and been thereabouts, I would love to have the first winner by him,’’ Flower said.
“Brad has always felt Chia was a nice filly and after her Canterbury run, the filly had done so well when he asked me whether I wanted to spell her or keep her going.
“I said if you are happy with her, she’s a racehorse so let’s roll the dice, the prizemoney is great for Sydney Saturday races these days.’’
Widdup is in his second full season of training and now has 53 in work at Platinum Park near Hawkesbury.
“I’m feeling more comfortable in the role but you always want to go better than what you are,’’ Widdup said. “We want to compete more regularly on Saturdays in Sydney but we have a young team so it takes time. As long as we can keep improving I will be happy.’’
Originally published as Koukash keen to conquer Everest with Flower
Billionaire owner loves Cup and G-strings00:00 / 00:00
Thousands of people have witnessed the annual Melbourne Cup parade and a 'crazy' billionaire owner model the G-string he plans to show off if he wins.
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Flamboyant British billionaire racehorse owner Dr Marwan Koukash has an extra incentive to win this year's Melbourne Cup: he desperately wants to accept the trophy in his G-string.
The self-proclaimed "crazy owner" loves every part of the build-up to the Cup, whether it's the annual parade in front of thousands of people or the attention he's getting over his promise to strip.
"It's fantastic, a fantastic experience," he said after Monday's parade.
"You'd have to be an absolute miserable bastard not to enjoy it.
"I've been enjoying every minute of being in Melbourne."
Dr Koukash is very confident his horse Magic Circle will win the Cup and just as determined to celebrate in a way no owner has before.
"It's the best race in the world," he told the crowd at Federation Square.
"It's not only the race that stops Melbourne or Australia. It stops the world."
Then he showed off a bright pink G-string, modelling it over his jeans.
"That's the lace that's going to stop the nation."
Dr Koukash rejects any suggestion he's all talk and no action, after not following through with his threat to collect the Chester Cup wearing only a tie when Magic Circle gave him a fourth win in the big British handicap in May.
Charlie Fellowes thinks Dr Koukash won't get the opportunity to strip, playing down Magic Circle's win in the Chester race over the English trainer's Cup contender A Prince of Arran.
"I don't think you're going to have to worry about the G-string."
That only emboldened Dr Koukash.
"If your horse wins I'll strip absolutely naked."
Fellowes, who hopes to become the first British trainer to win the Melbourne Cup, described the parade experience as unbelievable.
"When I was told you're doing a parade I thought there would be like five people lining the road, cheering with a flag or two. Maybe some friends or something," he said.
"I didn't realise they'd be three or four deep. It's unreal.
"We don't have this in England. So to come out here, have a runner in the race aged 32, five years into my training career, is a huge thrill."
UK-based Thady Gosden described his first experience in Melbourne for the Cup as surreal.
"I've never seen anything like it to be perfectly honest," said the 23-year-old, a junior assistant trainer to his father John who has Muntahaa in the race.
"It's almost like when a football team at home wins the Premier League and they have a parade through the streets, it's a similar type of thing to that.
"The amount of public interest in the whole event is dumbfounding really."
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