Briefly it looked like Kieran Shoemark and Lead Artist might have got first run on him but he got there comfortably in the end to become the first horse in the short history of the Bahrain ...

TASS/. King Hamad ibn Asa Al Khalifa, of Bahrain, who earlier in the day held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an Akhal-Teke horse as a gift from the Russian leader.