This evening’s ninth meeting of the 2019 Dubai World Cup Carnival, the final Carnival fixture before next weekend’s Super Saturday card, is highlighted by the Gr3 $300,000 Nad Al Sheba Trophy
On a Dubai World Cup Carnival night that featured three Gr3 contests Variety Club emerged as a serious Dubai World Cup day contender.
SA Champion trainer Mike de Kock reflected on last Thursday’s Carnival meeting at Meydan with great joy and an equal measure of frustration.
The Dubai racing season opened last Thursday with a 6 race card. Carded aboard Paschendale from the Al Muhairi yard, was Andrew Nienaber.
Igugu makes her UAE debut in Thursday evening’s Gr2 Balanchine Stakes,
Mike de Kock talks about Dubai World Cup Carnival Plans for star mare Igugu
Dubai: South Africa remains the UAE’s key business and investment partner, with total bilateral trade reaching almost $2 billion (Dh7 billion) so far, top officials said yesterday.
There’s no South African racing fan worth his salt, that doesn’t know Bankable.
The all-powerful two-man ‘Awards Committee’ of the Cape Breeders Club caused a bit of controversy late last year, when it succumbed to hubris. It picked J J The Jet Plane as the Cape Breeders’ Horse of the Year over the official Equus winner Irish Flame.
South African links are everywhere in Dubai, as stallions Daylami and Silvano feature in Dubai’s longest race.
Emirates NBD were the sponsors of Friday’s 7th meeting of the Dubai Racing Carnival, featuring Gr2 Balanchine Stakes and a 2000m conditions race on the All-Weather, both races dominated by Mike De Kock and Christophe Soumillon.
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
