The first two Guineas preps at Leopardstown on Sunday proved to be rather inconclusive affairs as Dunboyne Express took a three-runner Group 3 Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial while Empowering and Wild Wind gave Aidan O’Brien a one-two finish in the Group 3 1000 Guineas Trial.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Frankie Dettori already had won two races on Dubai World Cup night, but it was another Italian rider virtually unknown in the U.S., Mirco Demuro, who got the big one. And that was no conventional ride Demuro put on Victoire Pisa.
Last away and last into the first turn, Demuro steered out as the horses hit the backstretch, and whoosh – there Victoire Pisa went, passing 12 foes in a furlong. Unconventional but successful, as Victoire Pisa beat pacesetting Transcend to win the $10 million World Cup by a half-length.
Victoire Pisa pulled an upset in Saturday’s $10 million Dubai World Cup after jockey Mirco Demuro made a bold move to challenge for the lead about five furlongs from the finish.
It was the first win for a Japan-based runner in the world’s richest race.
Sat, 03/26/2011 - 13:50
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Rewilding hadn’t raced since last Sept. 11 in England, when he finished sixth in the Group 1 St. Leger Stakes, but the sleek, glossy 4-year-old colt who stepped onto the Meydan turf course for the $5 million Sheema Classic looked anything but rusty. And was he was not.
Rewilding, third in the 2010 English Derby, won the biggest race of his career in Saturday’s $5 million Sheema Classic at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, giving jockey Frankie Dettori his second winner of the Dubai World Cup undercard.
The winner is trained by Mahmood Al Zarooni for the Maktoum family’s Godolphin Racing, representing Godolphin’s third winner on Saturday’s program.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – In the 2009 Dubai Duty Free, Presvis beat 14 rivals by at least two lengths, but pacesetting Gladiatorus ran the race of his life that night, and Presvis had to settle for second. That was better than 2010, when Presvis got bottled up behind a wall of horses in the stretch, finishing 11th.
Sat, 03/26/2011 - 11:51
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – In his last four Group 1 appearances, Rocket Man had finished second by a head, second by a neck, second by a half-length, and second by a neck. Ouch.
Saturday night in the $2 million Golden Shaheen, a race in which he had been second last year, Rocket Man finally got there. He blasted by pacesetting Euroears in the final 120 yards and drew away to win by 2 1/4 lengths.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Maybe it was the fact he’d already won the race six times, but Saeed bin Suroor knew when the horses the wire that Khawlah finished first in the UAE Derby. He might have been the only one in the house.
Khawlah, a filly, led for all of one jump in the Group 2, $2 million UAE Derby, but it was the right one. Rallying from fifth, she stretched at the last second and caught Master of Hounds, who had taken the lead after turning into the stretch. The margin of victory was a nose.
Rocket Man avenged a narrow loss in the $2 million Golden Shaheen in 2010 with a victory in the same race in Dubai on Saturday, catching American pacesetter Euroears in the final sixteenth of the race over about six furlongs.