DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – There is a Ladies Night theme to this year’s Dubai World Cup. It centers on jockeys Hayley Turner and Chantal Sutherland, the first females to ride on World Cup Night. Then there is the champion 3-year-old filly Royal Delta, who is attempting to become the first female horse to win the $10 million Dubai World Cup.

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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.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – 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.

In two starts at Meydan this winter, Presvis finished fifth in the Group 2 Al Rashidya and ninth in the Group 1 Jebel Hetta, both stepping-stones to the Duty Free.

Trainer Luca Cumani said simply his horse has been compromised by slow paces in both of those races.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – For someone who suffered a heart attack approximately 57 hours earlier, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert looked pretty good Wednesday morning.

Baffert, 59, was up and walking about his palatial suite on the eighth floor of City Hospital in Dubai on Wednesday morning when a handful of visitors walked in to see him.

“I’m alive and grateful,” Baffert said in an interview with Daily Racing Form. “Actually, I feel pretty good. We caught the problem before it happened. Luckily, I had my wife Jill with me on this trip.”

Meydan Racecourse's nine race Dubai World Cup card, with its eight Group stakes worth a combined $27 million, has blossomed into a global racing event.

Saturday's proceedings kick off with the $250,000 Dubai Kahayla Classic, a 2000 meter Group 1 race for Arabians.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Still hospitalized following a heart attack, trainer Bob Baffert was unable to attend Wednesday’s post-position draw for Saturday night’s $10 million Dubai World Cup at Meydan.

As it turned out, his presence was not required.

Post 14 was the only one remaining for the connections of Game On Dude when starting positions were selected for the World Cup, the centerpiece of a nine-race card with purses totaling $27.2 million.

Trainer Graham Motion and his family arrived in Dubai on Monday afternoon, only to find out their reservation at the Meydan Hotel had been canceled.

Perhaps the hotel clerk went ahead and canceled the reservation after reading that Animal Kingdom wouldn’t make it for the World Cup.