Maritimer gets into UAE Derby
Trainer Herman Brown had to sweat it out until entry day, but his recently acquired 3-year-old, Maritimer, drew into Saturday night’s $2 million UAE Derby.
David GreningMar 26, 2012
Trainer Herman Brown had to sweat it out until entry day, but his recently acquired 3-year-old, Maritimer, drew into Saturday night’s $2 million UAE Derby.
Though Tim Yakteen has been training on his own for eight years now, Bob Baffert has summoned his former assistant to assist in his quest for a third Dubai World Cup with Game On Dude this Saturday at Meydan.
Led by Breeders’ Cup winners St Nicholas Abbey and Wrote, trainer Aidan O’Brien entered five horses Monday as post positions were drawn for eight of the nine races on Saturday’s $27.2 million Dubai World Cup card at Meydan. Post positions for the $10 million Dubai World Cup -- the world’s richest race -- will be drawn Wednesday. O’Brien is expected to enter So You Think in that race, bringing his total number of runners on the acrd to six.
Curren Chan, Japan's champion sprinter of 2011, scored a neck victory in the Grade 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Chuyko Racecourse.
Foxwedge, the 11-1 upset winner of the Group 1 William Reid Stakes for sprinters at Mooney Valley on Friday, is a candidate for the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.
Just six American-based horses will ship to the Middle East for next weekend's Dubai World Cup, due mainly to the switch to a Tapeta surface at the new Meydan racecourse.
Curren Chan, the 5-year-old mare who was Japan’s champion sprinter of 2011, will attempt to end a two-race losing streak in Sunday’s $2.4 million Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Chukyo Racecourse, Japan’s first Grade 1 of the year.
Manighar and Shoot Out, Group 1 winners on March 10, are two of the leading contenders for Saturday’s $428,000 Ranvet Stakes at Rosehill Racecourse in Australia.
Information on the Dubai Kahayla Classic at Meydan.
The Factor, one of the leading sprinters in the United States, tuned up for the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen by working a swift six furlongs in 1:11.20 on Monday morning at Hollywood Park.