With 3-year-olds Went the Day Well and Howe Great back home preparing for America’s Triple Crown series, trainer Graham Motion and owner Barry Irwin had the luxury of shipping Lucky Chappy halfway around the world for Saturday’s $2 million UAE Derby at Meydan.
Last year, trainer Bob Baffert was second to one in the $2 million Golden Shaheen with Euroears, who got beat by Rocket Man in the $2 million race at six furlongs over Meydan’s synthetic surface. Baffert has returned for another crack at the Golden Shaheen with speed merchant The Factor.
France’s Corine Barande-Barbe could become the first female trainer to win a Thoroughhbred race on Dubai World Cup Night when she sends out Cirrus des Aigles in the $5 million Sheema Classic at 1 1/2 miles on turf.
2012 Dubai World Cup handicapping videos
The filly Silent Achiever, who beat males in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby in Auckland on March 3, will be favored to win her fifth group stakes of 2012 in Saturday’s $535,000 Rosehill Guineas at Rosehill Gardens racecourse in Sydney, Australia.
If Presvis is to repeat his victory from a year ago in Saturday night’s $5 million Dubai Duty Free at Meydan, he is going to have to improve on the form he has displayed thus far this year.
For someone who suffered a heart attack approximately 57 hours earlier, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert looked pretty good Wednesday morning.
Analysis of the Dubai World Cup card from Meydan.
A field of 14 was entered Wednesday for Saturday's $10 million Dubai World Cup. Game On Dude will break from the far outside, while Royal Delta will start from post 7.
