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.
Trainer Graham Motion is in Dubai with Lucky Chappy, who is a serious contender in Saturday’s $2 million UAE Derby. Motion got his first look at Lucky Chappy on Tuesday morning and though the trainer admits his 3-year-old is “not an impressive horse to watch train,” he does like how things have gone for Lucky Chappy since his arrival in Dubai.
Bernie Schiappa, part-owner of Game On Dude, said there is little doubt that trainer Bob Baffert will be in attendance at Meydan on Saturday night when Game On Dude runs in the $10 million Dubai World Cup.
Bill Mott arrived in Dubai on Tuesday morning, reuniting with the filly, Royal Delta, he had shipped here from Florida a week ago. It was a trip he had first thought about taking four months ago. It was a trip he wondered for some time if he would be permitted to make.
