Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., canceled its Saturday card due to winter weather.

The Arkansas Racing Commission on Saturday approved a 54-date race meet for Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs for 2010 that is almost identical to the current calendar. The meet is scheduled to open on Friday, Jan. 15, and run through Saturday, April 10.

Oaklawn will race on a Thursday-through-Saturday schedule for most of the meet, picking up Wednesdays for the final three weeks of the season.

Provided the weather cooperates, Giant Oak will join the field for the Illinois Derby next Saturday rather than race at Keeneland in the Blue Grass Stakes, trainer Chris Block said.

California-based Well Armed made short work of the $6 million Dubai World Cup at Nad Al Sheba Saturday, going wire to wire in a breathtaking performance to win by 14 lengths while not being asked for his best in the final sixteenth of the 1 1/4-mile race.

Ridden by Aaron Gryder and trained by Eoin Harty, Well Armed broke sharply and took immediate command of the World Cup. Rated on the early lead, he opened up at will entering the long Nad Al Sheba stretch and was was never challenged thereafter. He was timed in 2:01.01.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Forty minutes after winning their first-ever Dubai World Cup card race with Gladiatorus in the $5 million Dubai Duty Free, Dubai-based trainer Mubarak bin Shafya and apprentice jockey Ahmad Ajtebi won a second when Eastern Anthem came from far back to win the $5 million Sheema Classic in a three-horse photo. Eastern Anthem, rallying three wide, was up by a nose over Spanish Moon, who was a nose in front of Purple Moon.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Nad Al Sheba-loving front-runner Gladiatorus opened a big early lead and easily held on to win the $5 million Dubai Duty Free on Saturday for local apprentice rider Ahmad Ajtebi and Dubai-based trainer Mubarak bin Shafya. Shafya is in his first year training Thoroughbreds after conditioning endurance horses in Dubai.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Americans dominated the $1 million Godolphin Mile - ex-Americans, that is. Two Step Salsa led virtually all the way in Saturday night's first Thoroughbred race at Nad Al Sheba, easily holding clear a mild bid from Gayego. Both horses campaigned last year at 3 in the United States, and were purchased privately by Godolphin late in the season.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates You could look at the $2 million UAE Derby one of two ways: Godolphin either gained a second hope for the Triple Crown, or saw their main prospect for the American Classics take a backward step. In any case, heavily favored Desert Party went down to defeat Saturday night at Nad Al Sheba, losing by a half-length to stablemate Regal Ransom, a horse Desert Party had beaten by almost six lengths when they last met on Feb. 12.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Indian Blessing suffered her first dirt loss in a race less than one mile when she could not run down Big City Man in the $2 million Golden Shaheen at Nad Al Sheba Saturday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Forecasts now call for wet weather to move back into Dubai late Saturday night, after the World Cup is over, meaning the race will be run over dry dirt. The local turf course should be good to firm; the amount of rain that fell on the grass this week is not much different than what would intentionally have been put on the surface through watering.

* As of 3 p.m. local time, just one horse had been withdrawn from tonight's races, with Paso de Gloria scratched from the UAE Derby.