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 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
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
