31st March 2014
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South Africa dominates the Godophin Mile on Dubai World Cup night as Variety Club wins from wide draw to beat Soft Falling Rain
2014 sees the 19th renewal of Dubai World Cup and the big day has finally arrived. Pat Cummings discusses the card and shares his thoughts and selections.
Ramsden bids to extend South African World Cup-day presence with Godolphin Mile Challenge. Joey is hoping that some of the gold dust from South Africa that fellow trainer Mike de Kock has scattered over the Dubai World Cup meeting in recent years falls on his first runner at the glittering occasion on Saturday
Mike de Kock, hasn’t just picked up the baton, but run right out of the stadium and made South African horses an internationally recognised brand. He will be saddling 8 runners, of which 5 are locally produced.
The likely fields for the 2014 Dubai World Cup have been published !
We had an interesting week in Dubai where Variety Club ran an extremely decent second on Super Saturday.
Two progeny of Avontuur stallions Var and Oratorio ranked in the official listing of the world’s best racehorses
There was major success but also major disappointment for South African racing at the Super Saturday meeting at Meydan in Dubai this weekend
On a Dubai World Cup Carnival night that featured three Gr3 contests Variety Club emerged as a serious Dubai World Cup day contender.
SA Champion trainer Mike de Kock reflected on last Thursday’s Carnival meeting at Meydan with great joy and an equal measure of frustration.
SA horseracing needs strong leadership – today. Otherwise we are doomed. Stakeholders don’t need this kind of circus!
