Dubai World Cup Preview and Tips
The richest night in international racing, the Dubai World Cup, sponsored by Emirates, is upon us this Saturday. Here, Ross Birkett, presenter on the Dubai Racing Channel, offers his run down of the likeliest winners of those big desert pots. Godolphin Mile (1.10pm GMT) As the name implies, the boys in blue dominate this race and have [...]
With just ten days to go until Dubai World Cup night, things are beginning to warm up very nicely here at Meydan, writes Ross Birkett. Although most of the big players won’t be arriving until early next week, there are still plenty of equine stars out and about in the mornings to keep tabs on. [...]
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We all know that South African trainer Mike De Kock is perfectly adept at conditioning his horses to shine on the big stage right across the globe but, should handling racehorses not work out, he could easily fall back on another line of work, writes Ross Birkett. I’m not sure how big the market is [...]
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It would be fair to say that jockeys based in the UAE over the winter months are a spoilt lot. Not only do they have just three meetings a week to ride at, the distance they have to travel to get to the races is nothing compared to the miles they have to clock up [...]
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Rags-to-riches sensation Treble Jig has garnered plenty of lines in this blog over the past few weeks and he looks like he could be writing plenty more if all said is to be believed, writes Ross Birkett. The cheap cast-off from Newmarket has turned UAE racing on its head since arriving to sunnier climes last [...]
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The quality scale keeps getting turned up a notch every week here at Meydan and don’t we know it as this Thursday sees three Group races on the agenda, writes Ross Birkett. Although usually a one-sided affair with the winner normally hailing from the blue corner of Godolphin, this year’s edition of the UAE 2000 [...]
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Dubai Diaries, by Ross Birkett If only Manchester City could be in better form at the minute, then writing this would be a lot easier. With Citeh not in a dominant mood, I can’t compare the owner’s string of racehorses with his football team. What I’m trying to get at is that Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed [...]
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Not so far away from the bright lights and big money of racing at Meydan, history was being made on Friday afternoon. Just five miles from the gaping one mile long grandstand of Dubai’s premier course stands Jebel Ali racetrack and, at 3.15 on Friday afternoon, a horse raised the little roof of the place. [...]
Continue reading …It’s been a good three months since I left the rain and mud of life back in Newmarket and don’t I know it after getting back in the saddle this week, writes Dubai Racing Channel’s Ross Birkett. Mick Channon was a man down and required someone to help exercise the horses in the mornings so [...]
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If the opening night was anything to go by, then we’re in for a scintillating 2013 Dubai World Cup Carnival, writes Ross Birkett. It was a night of fairy tales and dominance with some of the best horses in the world strutting their stuff on the most glamorous stage in horse racing. Right from the [...]
Continue reading …Finally all the presuming and guessing can be put to an end. The Dubai World Cup Carnival is HERE! (writes Ross Birkett) I know the world’s richest racing festival is all I’ve been on about during the last few weeks but it genuinely is something to get properly excited about. Top class horses running week [...]
Continue reading …It’s so close, you can almost taste it. It seems like no time has passed since the dust settled on the 2012 Dubai World Cup meeting last March and already we’re in the clutches of another Dubai World Cup Carnival. This week saw the final list published of those horses who have been accepted to [...]
Continue reading …Let’s hear it for the Arabians. Although laughed at in the UK, Arabian racing is big business out here and viewers back at home will be treated to a great taste of the smaller ponies when nine runners are set to go to post for the Group 2 Mazrat Al Ruwayah at Meydan on Thursday. [...]
Continue reading …We really are spoilt for jockeys in the UAE. I say this after yet another top class pilot landed in the Emirates this week with his winter schedule firmly set on Dubai. This will be Paul Hanagan’s first local season wearing the blue and white silks of his new boss Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al [...]
Continue reading …The UAE may have come to a standstill over the past week thanks to the local National Day celebrations (on a similar scale to Christmas) but the racing bandwagon continues to roll on and head to Meydan on Thursday. The course does come in for a lot of unwarranted stick – ok, it does possess [...]
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