DWC Hopefuls Impress
A six-race Saturday of ‘Racing at Meydan’ featured four races contested by horses with Dubai World Cup Carnival ambitions
18th January 2020
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A six-race Saturday of ‘Racing at Meydan’ featured four races contested by horses with Dubai World Cup Carnival ambitions
North America has become as big as his name implies in 2019 in just two starts and is now the Gr1 Dubai World Cup favourite
Three South African horses are amongst the likely fields for the Dubai World Cup card to be run on Saturday 30 March at Meydan
Three-time GRAMMY® Award winner Gwen Stefani will bring down the curtain on the $35 million Dubai World Cup
Dallas Stewart is planning to head back with another serious Dubai World Cup candidate in Grade 1 winner Seeking the Soul
Dubai Racing Club received 1,440 nominations for 739 horses from 20 countries for the 2019 Dubai World Cup day
Saeed bin Suroor has dominated the Dubai World Cup like no other trainer and won the US $10 million feature for a stunning eighth time
Mike de Kock’s Silvano duo of Janoobi and Al Sahem will be the centre of attention for South African racing fans on Dubai World Cup Night
The 2017 Sun Met winner Whisky Baron looks likely to very possibly be the only South African representative on Dubai World Cup day on 31 March
Who will follow in hoofprints of the likes of Dubai World Cup heroes of the ilk of Cigar, Dubai Millennium, Invasor, Curlin, California Chrome and Arrogate?
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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
