Mike de Kock runners on the Dubai World Cup card
Mike de Kock will start 13 runners on the Dubai World Cup card. See an exclusive DRF interview with the trainer and learn about his entrants.
Matthew BrennanMar 27, 2013
Mike de Kock will start 13 runners on the Dubai World Cup card. See an exclusive DRF interview with the trainer and learn about his entrants.
It’s a Dundeel, who won the Group 1 Randwick Guineas on March 16, will be favored to win the second leg of Australia’s autumn triple crown in Saturday’s $520,000 Rosehill Guineas at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse.
The Japanese filly Gentildonna, a heavy favorite in the Sheema Classic, made an impressive visual impression during her appearance at Meydan Racecourse on Wednesday.
Animal Kingdom breaks from post 12 in the $10 million Dubai World Cup, while Royal Delta is ideally drawn in post 8 and Dullahan will start from post 3. Hunter’s Light, the 7-2 favorite on the North American morning line for the World Cup, breaks from post 4.
Tuesday was a light training day for the two Dale Romans-trained horses here, with Dullahan going once around the main track at Meydan, and Little Mike jogging over the Tapeta surface on the training track located just southeast of the big track.
Ocean Park lost the first start of his career at a small country track in New Zealand. His New Zealand-based trainer, Gary Hennessy, trains a small 10- to 12-horse string at his farm near the town of Matamata. He and his wife, Jenny, do much of the work themselves. But do not be led astray by obscure origins nor the NZ next to his name: Ocean Park appears to be a major contender in the $5 million Dubai Duty Free.
Animal Kingdom's coat is a rich chestnut, his physique sculpted and picturesque. And when Animal Kingdom is feeling good and doing well, he does not hide it out on the racetrack during morning training.
For the first time in four years since he was parlyzed as the result of a spill at Arlington Park, Rene Douglas was at the track again in Dubai to root for a horse he picked out in Panama at this weekend's big races in Dubai.
Thirteen horses were entered Monday in the Group 1, $10 million Dubai World Cup, while the other eight stakes races on Saturday’s program were drawn with post positions assigned as final preparations ramped up for the richest race card on the planet.
Lord Kanaloa, Japan’s champion sprinter or miler in 2012, won his fourth consecutive race in Sunday’s Grade 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Chuyko Racecourse in Japan, setting a course record in the race over about six furlongs.