Fairytale Debut For Kafka
Some DWC Carnival aspirants and winners worth following into the ultra-valuable international extravaganza!
5th January 2020
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Some DWC Carnival aspirants and winners worth following into the ultra-valuable international extravaganza!
Not a Dubai World Cup Carnival meeting, but it does feature numerous DWC Carnival aspirants throughout the seven-race card
The fixture is the final one at Meydan in 2019 with the next one, in a fortnight, being the opening meeting of the 2020 Dubai World Cup Carnival
Both races were won by the 2014-15 champion trainer Mussabeh Al Mheiri in dominant fashion
Racing on Meydan’s seven-race card this evening is sponsored by pillar partner Longines and is highlighted by three exciting contests with Dubai World Cup Carnival implications
A six-race Gulf News-sponsored card on the same dirt surface as the $12 million Dubai World Cup
For the very first time, the world-famous racecourse hosts the initial meeting of the UAE season
Opener features the first race for the classic generation of 2020, a 1200m maiden affair that is an important stepping stone to the ramped-up $4,325,000 sophomore stakes programme
The final meeting on the course before the Dubai World Cup in just over two weeks, is highlighted by a pair of AED 190,000 handicaps
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
“When I heard the commentator say ‘Baroot,’ I thought to myself that he must have the wrong horse,” De Kock quipped
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
