Racing Weekly Issue 2

ISSUE ISSUE12•- 28 NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 2018 2018

YOUR RACING DESTINATION

APPLEBY GIVES BRITAIN

RASHID EQUESTRIAN

CHAMPION CRACKSMAN

FIRST MELBOURNE CUP

HORSE RACING SEASON KICKED-OFF

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ENABLE STARS FOR DETTORI IN BREEDERS' CUP TURF

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MEYDAN NEW TRAILS BLAZES TO OPENING NIGHT FEATURE VICTORY; WATSON WINS FOUR

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BAHRAIN RACING THE NEW HORSE RACING SEASON KICKED-OFF AT RASHID EQUESTRIAN AND HORSE RACING CLUB

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KEENELAND SALE ARROGATE'S HALF-SISTER GOES TO $750,000 AT KEENELAND FOR CLEARSKY FARMSÂ

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ERIC LEMARTINEL OUT TO REGAIN GROUP 1 SHEIKH ZAYED BIN SULTAN AL NAHYAN CROWN JEWEL

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ENABLE STARS FOR DETTORI IN BREEDERS' CUP TURF Enable showed her undoubted brilliance when continuing her winning run with an epic success in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs. Given a superb ride by Frankie Dettori, the dual Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine was challenged hard by Ryan Moore on Aidan O'Brien's Magical all the way down the straight, but got on top in the final half-furlong. Dettori managed to get Enable off the rail and to a better part of the track and the move paid off, as the John Gosden-trained filly justified her short price in style. The first two pulled well clear of the rest of the field, with the Khalid Abdullahowned Enable becoming the first Arc winner to follow up at the Breeders' Cup in the same season. Gosden said: "It was a big ask for our filly, and she greatly deserved it. It was a tough race, and Frankie wanted to stay wide. "When Magical slipped up her inner, I thought, 'This is the one we've got to beat', but she is mentally so strong and I think it was her mental strength as much as anything that brought her home in front.

"She's had a difficult year and really it's amazing she's here today. She showed enormous courage, beating a very high-class filly, and it was interesting that they came well clear of the third. "It was a wonderful stretch run between two great fillies and two great jockeys. We've come out on top and full marks to the filly because she's been very brave and mentally very strong to get herself here. "Maybe she's getting better. She did it today with sheer guts and determination. It's wonderful for her owner-breeder Prince Khalid Abdullah. He was keen to come here and has been rewarded." Dettori, recording a double after winning the Mile in the same colours aboard Expert Eye, said: "She's conquered America! She's the first one to do it. Amazing, I've no words to say how brilliant she is. "We had two inches of rain this last 48 hours and her wheels were spinning round the bend, so I took her on a wide trip to get her on fresh ground and then she was comfortable.

"I went for the better ground and she found another gear. he soft ground. She's very special. "Ryan beat me on Golden Horn and now the record's even." Abdullah's racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe was asked about the daughter of Nathaniel staying in training as a five-yearold. He said: "I was yelling for Frankie, it was just a fantastic race. So much has gone into the whole year and it became an emotional roller-coaster ride for Prince Khalid. "He will take his time before deciding on her future, but whatever decision he makes will be the right one." On the subject of another season, Gosden quipped: "Mr Dettori has three children going to college, so he'll be very keen she stays in training!"

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APPLEBY GIVES BRITAIN AND GODOLPHIN FIRST MELBOURNE CUP WITH CROSS COUNTER R A C I N G P O S T The race that stops a nation was finally won by the nation that has most fallen for Australia's iconic sporting event on a day of two historic firsts. Charlie Appleby's lightly weighted three-year-old Cross Counter, given a wonderful ride by Kerrin McEvoy, handed Britain and Godolphin a first success in the Lexus Melbourne Cup. The pioneering maiden international winner came 25 years ago when Dermot Weld's Vintage Crop proved it could be done. It has taken Britain another quarter of a century to master the art, but when they finally did so it was en masse. In the final 300 metres Charlie Fellowes and then Hughie Morrison thought A Prince Of Arran and Marmelo were going to make them the first Brit to train a Melbourne Cup winner, but in a contest that was not run at a searching gallop McEvoy still managed to come from near last to win going away. It was a mesmerising charge. A Prince Of Arran had travelled strongly into the straight and when Michael Walker sent Saturday's Lexus winner on Fellowes dared to dream. "He's run huge, I can't believe it," he said.

"There was a point there I thought we might have the Melbourne Cup but he just got tired in the last half furlong." It was Morrison's Marmelo that first swept past, yet his moment of excitement lasted even shorter. "There was a moment when he hit the front, but he was run down by an exceptionally good horse and weight for age makes a lot of difference," he said. "My heart had a quick flicker, but then I could see the red cap appearing and it lasted all of a split second." But by the time Fellowes and Morrison had got excited McEvoy already knew he had it in the bag.

"I got out at the 400 and knew I was going to finish but I was unaware how much running the horses in front of me had left. At the 300 I realised I had a chance and by the 250 I thought, 'I've got this covered' and 'really? Is this happening again?'" It was happening again – for a third time. And McEvoy produced a wondrous ride. Sat second last throughout, upon straightening up he had passed only a handful of runners and had no option but to angle out and circumnavigate the field.

He challenged widest, and fastest. With a furlong to run he still had several lengths to make up but having got into the race on eight stone he absolutely flew home. For Charlie Appleby it was an incredible way to cap a dream season.

When he started training five years ago he named the Derby and Melbourne Cup as the two races he most wanted to win.

In a stellar year in which he has now won 12 races at the highest level, he has lifted those two most prized trophies. Sheikh Mohammed has been trying to win the Melbourne Cup for 30 years. Until now it had eluded him, but Appleby delivered with just his third starter in the race. If his two runners in 2016 were a sighter then he is certainly a fast learner. "This year's been a stellar year and we've proved ourselves now," he said. "I learned from a couple of years ago it's tough backing up into a race like the Melbourne Cup – it's a different story. It doesn't matter where you go in the world, we're a young team and you've got to pick up what you feel is the right horse to bring down. I learned a lot two years ago, for a young horse it's hard to back up after a trial."

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NEW TRAILS BLAZES TO OPENING NIGHT FEATURE VICTORY; WATSON WINS FOUR

Settled by Connor Beasley, just off what looked a

ERA

so, while appearing to understandably tire in the

strong early gallop dictated by Royston Ffrench aboard Montsarrat, he was on hand to grab the initiative when that rival started to weaken early in the straight and soon opened up what proved a decisive advantage. It was then just a case of whether he could keep going and he gamely did

Meydan Racecourse hosts its first meeting of the

final 200m. Street Of Dreams who ran well went

2018-19 season

on to take second.

Dubai, UAE (November 1, 2018)—Racing at Meydan returned on Thursday evening with a seven-race card, all on the dirt surface, highlighted by the emirates.com, a handicap over the same 2000m dirt course and distance as the world’s most valuable horse race, the US$12 million Dubai World Cup sponsored by Emirates Airlines, and won by New Trails on his local bow.

A winner on debut for Andre Fabre and Godolphin as a juvenile in November 2016, he ran twice the following year and this, his first outing for Ahmad bin Harmash, was a first racecourse appearance since May 2017; an absence of 549 days.

“He was brave in the closing stages as he was

“I am based at Red Stables with Doug this season,

getting tired,” said Beasley, who was completing a

which is brilliant,” Buckell said. “I worked this

double for both himself and the trainer.

horse the other day and he went very well, so I

“Obviously we are delighted with a double and

was quite hopeful, but he surprised me just how

hopefully there are plenty more to come this

well he picked up.”

season.”

Watson added: “He did that quite nicely under an

Bin Harmash added: “This is a nice new horse for

excellent ride from George from a bad draw. The

us this season and we knew that if he could

horse won a maiden here last season so we knew

produce the levels he had shown us in his work at

he handled conditions and it is nice to get that

home, he would run well. He has trained well on

first winner on the board.”

dirt, but until you race them on it, you never

Watson wasted no time completing a double and

know. Hopefully he can build on this.”

this time it was stable jockey, Pat Dobbs, aboard

The evening had commenced with a 1400m

the overpowering Big Brown Bear, who pawed his

maiden, the Emirates Holidays, which attracted a

way to the front and proved far too good for 11

select field of five juveniles, all making their debut.

rivals in the Arabian Adventures, a 1400m maiden

Phoenix Ladies Syndicate enjoyed the perfect

for the older horses. The final margin for the long

start to racehorse ownership with Walking

well-regarded son of Tiznow was five lengths,

Thunder, their very first runner, winning

finishing up in 1:26.57.

emphatically under Beasley to initiate the double.

“This is a nice horse and one we hope will have a

Saddled by Bin Harmash, the 2-year-old son of

big season,” Watson said. “We were pretty

Violence hit the front at about the halfway point.

confident coming here this evening and he has

It only required a shake of the reins from Beasley

not let us down.”

halfway up the straight to settle the contest and

Watson then made it three consecutive victories

the pair posted a comfortable victory in a winning

by landing the Emirates Airline, a 1200m

time of 1:26.23.

handicap, with Stunned, completing double for

Syndicate manager, Pamela Cordina, said: “We are

both jockey, Dobbs and owner, Al Basti. Drawn

all delighted to have our first win at Meydan with

one, Dobbs wasted no ground, sticking to the rail

our very first runner! We had a lot of faith in the

throughout, pouncing when proper and finishing

horse and he has proved us right. Our trainer

with authority. It was a third course win for the

Ahmad bin Harmash has done an amazing job

horse and second over 1200m, while he has also

with him and Connor Beasley gave him the

won over 1400m both at Meydan and Jebel Ali

perfect ride. We look forward to an amazing

but had not tasted success since February 2017.

season here in the UAE after a perfect start.”

“We did not have the best of campaigns with him

Bin Harmash added: “We were quite hopeful

last season, but he has always shown us plenty of

because he had been working well and

ability,” Watson said. “We had a great post in stall

improving all the time but it is never easy for a

one and he is happy to travel in behind horses

2yo first time so out so we have to be very

and face the dirt. The gap opened up on that rail

pleased. It is the perfect start to both my Meydan

and Pat has given him the perfect ride.”

season and, of course, for the owners who have about a dozen horses here in the UAE.” The Emirates Skywards, a 1600m handicap was won

by Syncopation in impressive style. Hitting the front 200m out and running on strongly under George Buckell, for whom it was a first mount of the season and only ride on the card.

THE NEW HORSE RACING SEASON KICKED-OFF AT RASHID EQUESTRIAN AND HORSE RACING CLUB GDN Favorites made a winning start as the new horse racing season kicked-off at Rashid Equestrian and Horse Racing Club in Sakhir.

The Dark Knight and Laidback Romeo were the biggest winners of the day.

The Dark Knight, owned by Victorious, trained by Alan Smith and ridden by Gerald Mosse, beat Henry The Horse by one-and-one-fourth-length to win the Late Shaikh Rashid bin Isa Al Khalifa Cup (Opening Day Cup) for locally bred horses

THE DARK KNIGHT AND LAIDBACK ROMEO WERE THE BIGGEST WINNERS OF THE DAY

carrying a cash prize of BD5,000, Jadeel was third and Al Barea fourth.

Laidback Romeo, owned by Al Adiyat Racing, trained by Alan Smith and ridden by Gerald Mosse, won the corresponding trophy for imported horses carrying a similar cash prize of BD5,000.

The favourite beat Emerald by one-and-onefourth-length while Potentate was third and Baltic Knight fourth.

Showdaisy, owned by Shaikh Hamad bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, trained by James Naylor and ridden by Ali Samir, caused one of the two upsets of the day beating Grey Z by one-and-one-fourthlength to claim the Late Shaikh Rashid bin Isa Al Khalifa Cup carrying a cash prize of BD2,000. Punk was third and Tulip Fever fourth.

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Ramani, owned by Al-Afoo Racing Stable, trained by Hussain Aldailami and ridden by T P O’Shea, beat Caped Crusader by two-and-half-a-length to win the Late Shaikh Rashid bin Isa Al Khalifa Cup for locally bred horses carrying a cash prize of BD2,000 Riyada was third and Dushanbe fourth.

Kuheilaan Aafas 1708, owned by Al Jasra, trained by Yousif Taher and ridden by Husain Makki, beat Al Jellaby 1683 by six lengths to win the Late Shaikh Rashid bin Isa Al Khalifa Cup for Arabian horses carrying a cash prize of BD2,000 Musannaan 1689 was third and Al Jellaby 1656 fourth.

The Nazca Lines, owned by Shaikh Salman bin Rashid Al Khalifa, trained by Yousif Alboainain and ridden by Abdulla Faisal, caused the other upset of the day, beating Joe’s Spirit by three-fourth-length to win the Late Shaikh Rashid bin Isa Al Khalifa Cup carrying a cash prize of BD2,000. Rogue Wave was third and Happy Call fourth. Blue Fern, owned by Victorious, trained by Alan Smith and ridden by Gerald Mosse, gave the favourites a good start beating Gharaieb by a length to win the opening race of the season which was for the Late Shaikh Rashid bin Isa Al Khalifa Cup for locally bred horses carrying a cash prize of BD2,000 Asir was third and Namuthej fourth..

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RACING WEEKLY

FEATURE

DRESS YOURSELF

ARROGATE'S HALF-SISTER GOES TO $750,000 AT KEENELAND SALE

HORSE RACING NATION Hip 28, a Tapit filly and half-sister of champion Arrogate, set the bar early in Monday’s Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale by selling as a $750,000 weanling to Clearsky Farms. She’s out of the Distorted Humor mare Bubbler, who also produced stakes winner Osare, winner of Kentucky Downs’ Dueling Grounds Derby back in September.

Hill ’n’ Dale purchased half the mare when she was in foal and consigned Hip 28. Clearsky, also Arrogate’s breeder, ensured full interest in the weanling Monday.

“We’ve been really happy with pretty much everything she’s produced so far,” said Clearsky’s Bernard Cleary. “Obviously, we’ve sold half of her, but trust that was the right decision because we believe in the mare quite a bit and we’re hoping we can produce some more brilliant horses.

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CRACKSMAN TO STAND AT DARLEY'S DALHAM HALL STUD IN 2019 BLOOD HORSE

After months of speculation, Darley revealed that Cracksman, the highest-rated horse in Europe, will take up stallion duties at the operation's Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, where he will be introduced to breeders at a fee of £25,000 (US$32,400).

The four-time group 1-winning son of Frankel twice achieved a Racing Post Rating of 131 for his back-toback wins in the QIPCO Champion Stakes (G1), events he won by an aggregate of 13 lengths.

An impressive winner of a Newmarket maiden on his only start at 2, the John Gosden-trained Cracksman went on to place third in the Investec Derby (G1) and the Irish equivalent, beaten a length

by Wings of Eagles at Epsom and just a neck by Capri at the Curragh.

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But he would not suffer defeat again at 3, as he ran away with the Betway Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2) and Qatar Prix Niel (G2) before storming to the first of his joint career-best performances with a sevenlength demolition of Poet's Word in the Champion Stakes, where he had Highland Reel and Recoletos among others in behind.

Despite a barrage of undue criticism following his runner-up effort in the 2018 Prince of Wales's Stakes (G1), Cracksman recorded three further group 1 successes at 4.

He landed the Prix Ganay-Prix de l'Inauguration de Parislongchamp (G1) and Investec Coronation Cup (G1) before he bounced back to his very best to bring the curtain down on a glittering racing career with a second wide-margin win in the Champion Stakes, in which he accounted for Crystal Ocean by six lengths. Owned and bred by Anthony Oppenheimer's Hascombe and Valiant Studs, Cracksman is not only by one of the most promising young stallions in the world, but is out of Rhadegunda, a daughter of the increasingly important Pivotal. Cracksman is one of five top-flight winners sired by Frankel from just three crops of racing age. The unbeaten dual world champion has also supplied elite Japanese winners Mozu Ascot and Soul Stirring, as well as St James's Palace Stakes (G1) hero Without Parole and Qatar Prix du Cadran (G1) scorer Call The Wind.

ERIC LEMARTINEL OUT TO REGAIN GROUP 1 SHEIKH ZAYED BIN SULTAN AL NAHYAN CROWN JEWEL THE NATIONAL Eric Lemartinel is looking to set the record “They [Mawahib and RB Burn] are both straight in this year's Sheikh Zayed bin

coming in to the race in good shape but

Sultan Al Nahyan Crown Jewel race in Abu

this year it is much stronger with some very

Dhabi after seeing RB Burn stripped of

good horses flown in from overseas,” he

victory in controversial fashion last time

said. Lemartinel has racked up 97 winners,

out. Lemartinel is double handed in the

including a career best 37 last season, in his

Dh5 million Group 1 contest, the world’s

first three years as head trainer for

richest race for Purebred Arabians, with

President Sheikh Khalifa’s Al Asayl Stables.

Mawahib and RB Burn, winner in 2016 and

All in all the Frenchman has saddled 235

demoted to second place last year despite

winners, including 11 Group 1 prizes since

finishing first past the post. Muraaqib,

his arrival in Abu Dhabi in 2006. The new

trained in France by Francois Rohaut and

season saw Lemartinel’s runners get off to a

ridden by Jim Crowley in the silks of Sheikh

bright start. He saddled a double in last

Hamdan bin Rashid, was promoted as the

week's opening meeting and lines up 11

winner following a stewards’ inquiry for

across four races in Friday’s second meet,

interference.

also at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club.

The decision did not go down well with Lemartinel. However, with the passing of time, he says he has moved and has his sights set on regaining Abu Dhabi horse racing’s most coveted prize.

Trainer Eric Lemartinel plans to race Darius

Doleuze, a French jockey who has been

Du Paon in the National Day Cup next

riding in Hong Kong for the last 15 years in

month after seeing his charge triumph at

freelancing in his first season in the UAE,

the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club’s opening

made his mark on the very first ride in the

meeting for the season on Saturday.

Emirates. “Eric asked me to ride his horse

Lemartinel's horse, ridden by Olivier

and I couldn’t have wished for a better

Doleuze, riding in the UAE for the first time,

result,” he said. “I don’t know much about

prevailed in the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al

the horse but when I went to the start he

Nahyan National Day Cup Prep, a Rated

was nice and relaxed. He was able to follow

Conditions for Purebred Arabians run over

the lead horse (AF Al Sajanjle ridden by

the 1,600-metre trip. Lemartinel was

Tadhg O’Shea) and good enough to win. “It

pleased with his form and confirmed his

is good for me to come and try different

next outing would be again in Abu Dhabi

things. It isn’t a benefit to sit in the same

on December 9. “He was runner up in the

place for a long time. So it was good to

race last year after missing the break, so his

come meet other people and to win is

win wasn’t a surprise,” said Lemartinel of

really good.”

Saturday's win. “Tonight he raced behind the leading horse and got a good run on the home stretch to win well. Obviously his next race will be the National Day Cup (on December 9).”

NATIONAL DAY CUP NEXT GOAL FOR DARIUS DU PAON AFTER ABU DHABI WIN THE NATIONAL

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GUNNEVERA & THUNDER SNOW MAY MEET AGAIN IN DUBAI

as well as Coolmore’s UAE Derby sponsored

ERA The form of Dubai World Cup night 2018 was

participation. Fourteen horses started in the

strong on Saturday at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky, highlighted by dynamite performances in the weekend’s centrepiece affair, the Grade 1 $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. An impressive six horses with Meydan form went to post in the 2000m dirt feature, topped by four runners from the Dubai World Cup sponsored

by Emirates Airline (G1): Godolphin’s DWC winner Thunder Snow (far right), Bob Bafferttrained runner-up West Coast, Doug O’Neilltrained fourth-place finisher Pavel and eighth-place finisher Gunnevera (third from right). Two-time Dubai Golden Shaheen sponsored by Gulf News (G1) winner Mind Your Biscuits,

by The Saeed & Mohammed Al Naboodah (G2) romper Mendelssohn were also in 35th edition of the Classic, headlined by America’s top-rated middle-distance dirt horse, Accelerate who ultimately would not be denied. Margoth’s Gunnevera and Saeed bin Suroor-trained Thunder Snow made the favourite work for his victory, nonetheless.

Gunnevera closed fastest of all from far astern and after a tough break from the starting gate, pipping Thunder Snow for second.

Thunder Snow overcame the unenviable rail post to get position behind pace-setting Mendelssohn, on what many considered to be the slowest part of the racetrack, made a strong bid at the top of the lane and ultimately finished a valiant third.

Mendelssohn, despite setting a torrid pace of

Improving Oklahoma Derby (G3) winner Lone

46.46 seconds for the first 800m and 1:10.61

Sailor (sixth), aforementioned Pavel and

for the first 1200m, held well to finish fifth,

2000m-loving Catholic Boy (13th) also appear

beaten a mere four

like candidates-to-be if they progress over the

lengths at the wire. Pavel was in great

winter enough to earn an invite and their

position until steadying hard with 400m to

connections deem them worthy of a trip to

go, ultimately giving way, and West Coast

Dubai. Mind Your Biscuits, who was wide

was prominent early before fading when the

throughout and never truly involved, retreated

real running commenced.

to 11th and will now possibly have one more

Thunder Snow will now return to Dubai on a

run in the $750,000 Cigar Mile (G1) on Dec. 1 in

Thursday flight to prepare for a 5-year-old

his home state of New York before heading to

season and defence of his Dubai World Cup

stud in Japan. (Thunder Snow) ran a huge race,”

title. He will commence his winter campaign

bin Suroor reported after the Classic. “I’m

in either the Al Maktoum Challenge R1 (G2,

happy with him. It’s the big stage and the big

1600m, $350,000, Jan. 10) or Al Maktoum

race with the best horses in the world and it

Challenge R2 (G2, 1900m, $450,000, Feb. 7).

was a good run from him. Now we take him

Sano confirmed that Gunnevera will point to

back to Dubai to Sheikh Mohammed to

the $9 million Pegasus World Cup

prepare for the Dubai World Cup. It was no

Invitational (G1) before a possible return date

problem with the draw. I wasn’t really worried

to Dubai. Grade 1 winner on turf and dirt,

about that. He jumped well and was in a nice

Yoshida (left, white blaze), who ran an

position. It was too fast early, but he still ran a

excellent, fast-closing fourth in the Classic for

huge race. I’m happy with that.” “I thought he

trainer and 1996 DWC winner Bill Mott, is

ran great and I’m really proud of the horse,”

possible to point for the Dubai World Cup,

Stewart said. “He needed a little more ground

but no solid plans have been made just yet.

(distance), that’s all. I’m very happy for Mike

Owner Charles Fipke and trainer Dallas

McCarthy (trainer, City of Light) and his team.

Stewart, whose partnership resulted in

We just got outrun today and that’s horse

champion Forever Unbridled’s fifth-place

racing. We’ll point toward the Pegasus from

finish in the 2018 Dubai World Cup, may be

here.” He added the day after: “Hopefully we

back for more in March. Their Seeking the

can get an invite for Dubai.” “It was not our

Soul was second on Saturday in the $1

day,” trainer and co-owner Chad Summers said.

million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile to City of

“Congrats to Joel (Rosario, jockey of Accelerate

Light. With excitement already beginning to

and former rider of Mind Your Biscuits), John

build for the centrepiece of Meydan’s racing

Sadler (winning trainer) and Accelerate.” All in

calendar, it is worthwhile to keep an eye on

all, the Breeders’ Cup provided Meydan Racing

Baffert-trained McKinzie (12th as the Classic’s

fans a great deal of which to anticipate as we

second choice), who fits the mould of the

march toward the Dubai World Cup Carnival, a

three-time winner’s prototypical DWC horses,

mere eight weeks away (Jan. 3 launch), and the

as well as Axelrod (ninth), who was recently

world’s richest day of racing, the $35 million

purchased in part by Dubai-based Phoenix

Dubai World Cup card (Mar. 30).

Thoroughbreds.