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The Day The Rains Came To The Desert
We rewind to 1997, when Singspiel, owned and bred by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai- won the Dubai World Cup
We rewind to 1997, when Singspiel, owned and bred by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai- won the Dubai World Cup
Katak is thought by his veteran trainer and internationally experienced jockey to possibly be one of the best horses in the country
Blushing Groom sire Rahy, a half-brother to former South African sire Rakeen and champion Singspiel, made his mark as a broodmare sire
While the Dubai World Cup to be run on Saturday for a purse of $10 000 000, is a relatively new race –it was first run in 1996 –it is a race whose winners already include some breed shaping stallions
SARAH WHITELAW: When Fox Hunt won Sunday’s German St Leger he became the second German classic winner produced by Dubawi’s second crop. The stallion’s other German classic winner had previously been Waldpark (Deutsches Derby).
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million