Gokhan Kocakaya Wins the 6th International Jockeys’ Challenge

Lanfranco Dettori from England, Maxime Guyon from France, Javier Jose Castellano from USA, Yuichi Fukunaga from Japan and Craig Williams from Australia competed against the Turkish Team of Ahmet Celik, Akin Sozen, Halis Karatas, Selim Kaya and Gokhan Kocakaya.

Gokhan Kocakaya, winner of the 6th International Jockey Challenge, received his cup from Mr. Lino Strangis, Consul-General of Australia.

Mr. Can N. Güven, Board Member of Jockey Club of Turkey, presented the cup to Javier Jose Castellano, who came second in the challenge.

Akin Sozen, who finished the challenge in third place, took his cup from Mr. Osman Hattat, General Secretary of Jockey Club of Turkey.

Winning jockey Gokhan Kocakaya won a prize Money of € 8,000 while Javier Jose Castellano and Akin Sozen obtained € 4,000 and € 2,000 for second and third places at the challenge.

Halis Karatas won the first leg of the challenge with GOCMENHAN

MANOUSH won the second leg of the challenge with Javier Jose Castellano

Gokhan Kocakaya crossed the finish line in first place at the third leg of the challenge on 3-years-old colt CANIS MAJORIS

Gokhan Kocakaya won the last leg of the challenge on the 4-years-old mare SUDE SULTAN

Final points in the challenge are as follows:

Host Team

Guest Team