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Mohammed Moubarak will return to the U.S. after a second spell training in Britain
G1-winning trainer Mohamed Moubarak has quit as a trainer and is returning to the US frustrated at not being able to compete at the level he had hoped, despite starting his second spell in Newmarket with Zaaki in his stable.
Moubarak, 55, saddled his final runner at Newmarket's July Festival to bring an end to a six-season stay and will fly to Saratoga this week with plans to continue working in the racing industry, though not as a trainer.
“I really would have liked to have been able to compete at the highest level here,” he said. “When I left here in 1992, I had a stable full of Group horses and there was no money made from prize-money. Then I come back 30 years later and it's still the same money. I left everybody here arguing and trying to go on strike to raise prize-money and they are still at it today.”