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East Bay Track, a Race for Glory for a Once-Abandoned Breed

Local horse trainer Terri Eaton rides Arabian race horse Sand Victor during a workout on the track at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton on Wednesday. Sand Victor has qualified for the world’s richest Arabian horse race, the $1.3 million Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Crown Jewel and will make the trip to Abu Dhabi to compete in the race in November. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
Local horse trainer Terri Eaton rides Arabian race horse Sand Victor during a workout on the track at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton on Wednesday. Sand Victor has qualified for the world’s richest Arabian horse race, the $1.3 million Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Crown Jewel and will make the trip to Abu Dhabi to compete in the race in November. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)

PLEASANTON, CA — Sand Victor was all by himself as he circled the racetrack at Alameda County Fairgrounds early Wednesday morning for one last workout before the horse flew to Abu Dhabi to compete in the richest Arabian horse race in the world.

All other horses had cleared the oval for the handsome 5-year-old grey stallion — one of the best horses ever to come from the Pleasanton stables — so he could learn to run clockwise, the opposite direction of American equine races, for his international contest. Read more here...

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