AlUla Camel Cup is set to be the pinnacle of the Saudi Arabian camel-racing season

AlUla, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – February 27, 2023: The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), in collaboration with the Saudi Camel Racing Federation (SCRF), introduced at present that the inaugural AlUla Camel Cup will be held from March 14-17, 2023. The match will crown a ‘Champion of Champions’ and can full with a grand prize pool of USD 21.33M.

With the highest prize pots in the world per spherical of camel racing, the match honors the Kingdom’s revered sport in the beautiful backdrop of AlUla, a spot of extraordinary human and pure heritage.

Amr AlMadani, CEO of the Royal Commission for AlUla mentioned: “The AlUla Camel Cup will have a good time the most noble of Saudi Arabian sporting traditions, welcoming royalty VIPS, the elite of the sport and lots of distinguished company to the most superb of settings for this illustrious event.”

With such deep-rooted historic connections – akin to the Incense Road Trading route the place camel caravans travelled by AlUla buying and selling valuable items, and the historic petroglyphs that includes camels engraved throughout the rocks of AlUla – it is becoming that we have a good time the ‘ships of the desert’ with the first AlUla Camel Cup.

The inclusion of the AlUla Camel Cup to the Saudi Camel Racing Federation’s season ushers in a brand new period for the Kingdom’s cherished homegrown pursuit.

“We eagerly await March 14 when world-class sport will be mixed with pure magnificence and the epitome of fashionable luxurious for a spectacle like no different.”

Mahmoud Suleiman Albalawi, Executive Director of SCRF, mentioned: “The pinnacle of the Saudi Arabian camel racing season, which can crown a ‘Champion of Champions’, can haven’t any higher setting than the efficiency grade monitor at AlUla, a jewel of the desert the place custom meets modernity.

“Saudi Arabia has championed camel racing the world over, with historic data indicating the sport performed an element in our historic tradition way back to the seventh Century. The skilled nature of camel racing has a equally distinguished previous, with the first skilled camel race held in Saudi Arabia relationship again to 1964 as half of a heritage pageant.

“The evolving story of the sport, the place we pay tribute to its timelessness and the particular enchantment it holds in the hearts and minds of the area’s folks, will attain new heights at the AlUla Camel Cup in March 2023. Here the conclusion of our camel racing season, which started again in August 2022, will attain a very spectacular finale.”

AlUla Camel Cup is one of the flagship sports activities occasions of AlUla Moments 2023 calendar of occasions and festivals, which incorporates 5 main festivals and 6 marque occasions. Other sports activities occasions happening in AlUla are “The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Endurance Cup in AlUla 2023” (March 4), “AlUla Trail Race” (February 23 and 24), and the current “Saudi Tour” (January 30 – February 3).

In-depth particulars of every day at the AlUla Camel Cup, and actions surrounding the occasion, will be launched sooner or later.