Dubai Thursday: Three Features
Thursday’s eighth meeting of the 2015 Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan Racecourse is arguably the best with three feature races
25th February 2015
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Thursday’s eighth meeting of the 2015 Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan Racecourse is arguably the best with three feature races
‘This is an important season for us as we will stage the 20th running of the Dubai World Cup and we look forward to welcoming top international horses to compete on the surface’
Running the Dubai World Cup on a synthetic surface when virtually nowhere else uses a similar one has taken away much of its relevance
There could be as many as seven runners representing Mike De Kock and Joey Ramsden on Dubai World Cup night next Saturday 29 March
Oratorio’s brilliant son Military Attack finds form at right time to win the Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup in dazzling style and book his Dubai World Cup berth
Mike de Kock added a victory in the Racing at Meydan feature on Saturday to the 2 Dubai World Cup carnival handicaps he earned last Thursday
Phumelela hosted the global tote pools on the recent Dubai World Cup 2013 and turnover for the nine-race meeting was R60 million – a huge 26% increase on 2012.
The best advertisement in the world could not speak louder than Mike de Kock’s two trained SA breds winning on the 18th Dubai World Cup day.
Team Valor’s Animal Kingdom showed his class and character with a superb win in the Gr1 Dubai World Cup run over 2000m at Meydan on Saturday
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
