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Teams for Shergar Cup confirmed...


The final line-up of teams for the 2011 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup,the world’s premier international jockeys’ team competition at Ascot on Saturday 6 August has been confirmed.

Champion jockey Paul Hanagan (Great Britain) and 100 times Group 1-winning jockey Olivier Peslier (Europe) were on Monday confirmed as the two remaining team captains for Saturday’s Shergar Cup, which has attracted a massive entry.

Although the six races are limited to ten runners and two reserves each, a total of 207 entries were made at the six-day stage with the smallest entry being the 21 for the Sprint.

Hanagan will be joined by Hayley Turner and Jim Crowley in the four team event where they will take on sides from Ireland, Europe and the Rest of the World.

Richard Hughes, who has captained the Irish team the last two years will again be fulfilling that role. He will be joined by team mates Fran Berry and Colm O'Donoghue.

A powerful Rest of the World Team comprises the all-time record holders from Hong Kong and Japan, Doug Whyte and Yutaka Take, and Aussie ace, Hugh Bowman.

In the European team Olivier Peslier will be joined by Mirco Demuro*** and Christophe Lemaire.

*** (Is this the ****tard who smacked Rakti?)