Belshazzar, the winner of the Japan Cup Dirt in December, makes his 2014 debut in Sunday’s $1.91 million February Stakes at Tokyo Racecourse in Japan, a prep for an expected start in the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 29.
L’Amour de Ma Vie, a 5-year-old Kentucky-bred mare who raced on France’s all-weather winter circuit in December, scored an 8-1 upset win in Thursday’s $200,000 Balanchine Stakes at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
European Group 1 winners Certify and Flotilla meet for the second time this winter in Thursday’s $200,000 Balanchine Stakes at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, one of two $200,000 races on a six-race program.
It was a Southern Hemisphere kind of night on Thursday at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, with horses who last started in South Africa and Australia making the strongest impressions during a six-race program.
A trio of Group 3 races, the $250,000 UAE 2000 Guineas, the $200,000 Firebreak, and the $200,000 Al Shindagha Sprint, are featured on Thursday’s six-race program at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
Chriselliam, the champion 2-year-old filly of Europe in 2013 and the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita last November, was euthanized on Friday from complications of a foot infection.
Prince Bishop, a 17-1 outsider, won his first Group 2 stakes since 2010 with an upset in Thursday’s $250,000 Round 2 of the Maktoum Challenge at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
The Group 1 winners Dunaden, Heavy Metal, and Hunter’s Light are three of the 16 runners in Thursday’s $250,000 Round 2 of the Maktoum Challenge at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, a prep for the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 29.
Making her first start since September 2012, the 4-year-old filly Certify made an excellent return to the races, scoring a measured three-quarter-length victory over longshot L’Amour De Ma Vie in the Group 2, $200,000 Cape Verdi Stakes on turf Thursday at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
On Thursday, Trade Storm returns to his favorite course at Meydan as one of 12 entrants in the Group 2, $200,000 Al Rashidiya over about 1 1/8 miles.
