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Dubai Racing Carnival

The Dubai Racing Carnival gets underway towards the end of January and continues for 11 weeks with a different meeting each week. Some of the meetings are based over 1 day and others over 2. The Carnival culminates on 27 March with the running of the world’s richest race, the Dubai World Cup, which takes place in 2010 on 27th March.

For the first time the Carnival will be held at the new and magnificent Meydan Racecourse which has cost over 2 Billion Dollars to build and is without doubt the most luxurious racecourse in the world, even boasting its own Marina and Five Star Hotel.

The course has two racetracks, one of turf and the other of All Weather constituted from a material known as Tapeta, which has already proven popular with the horses following a series of trials.

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The Dubai Racing Carnival Calendar

• January 28 – Carnival Day - Concluded
• February 4 – Carnival Day - Concluded
• February 5 – Carnival Day - Concluded 
• February 11 – Carnival Day - Concluded 
• February 18 – Carnival Day - Concluded
• February 19 – Carnival - Concluded 
• February 25 – Carnival - Concluded 
• March 4 - Super Thursday - Concluded 
• March 5 – Meydan Masters
• March 27 – Dubai World Cup

March 4th – Super Thursday

The fantastic Dubai Carnival continues this Thursday with a six race meeting featuring the Al Bastakiya over 1m1f on the Tapeta course. The evening also features the third round of the Al Maktoum Challenge. Full race card is as follows:

• 3.35 – Al Bastakiya (Tapeta) – 1m 1½ f
• 4.15 – Mahab Al Shimaal (Tapeta) 6f
• 4.50 – Burj Nahaar (Tapeta) – 1m
• 5.35 – Dubai City Of Gold (Tapeta) – 7f
• 6.10 – Al Maktoum Challenge R3 (Gp 2) (Tapeta) 1m2f
• 6.45 – Jebel Hatta (Tapeta) – 1m1f

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Form

Vale Of York, trained by Godolphin and likely to be ridden by Ahmed Atjeba, makes his return to the track after winning the Breeders Cup Juvenile back in November at Santa Anita. The impressive three year old will be running as a warm up for Dubai World Cup night later this month, but it likely to need the this race, before reaching anything like his best form.

Likely favourite for this race however is the Mike De kock trained Musir, impressive winner of the UAE 2000 Guineas. The Al Bastakiya is the second of three rounds which make up the UAE Triple Crown - the final leg will be run on Dubai World Cup night.

Vale Of York is one of five star runners from Godolphin, who will feature at Meydan on this ‘Super Thursday’, the others being Cavalryman, Skysurfers, Allybar and Justenuffhumor.

Cavalryman in fact is likely to run in the ‘Super Thursday’ main feature, the Group 2 Al Maktoum Challenge R3, where he will take on Dubai World Cup runner up, Gloria De Campeao, the highly thought of Japanese mare, Vodka as well as stablemate, Allybar.

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Thursday Tips

This week tips are as follows:

• 3.35 – Al Bastakiya – Musir
• 6.10 – Al Maktoum Challenge – Gloria De Campeao

Friday – Meydan Masters Jockey Challenge

This final day of the Dubai Carnival is dedicated to the 12 jockey’s who were selected from all over the world to ride during the Meydan Carnival, many of whom will be riding at the Dubai World Cup later this month.

The jockey’s selected were selected by virtue of winning top races in their respective countries and this meeting is aimed at crowning one of them as Meydan’s master jockey. The jockey’s will compete against each other in four races on this final night which has a total of seven races on the complete card. The jockey’s competing are as follows:

• C Lemaire
• O Peslier
• T Durcan
• C Brown
• K Desormeaux
• N Yokoyama
• R Moore
• J Spencer
• F Dettori
• A Gryder
• A Ajtebi
• R Hills

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Friday – Racecard

The full card for the final night of the Dubai Carnival is as follows:

• 3.05 Meydan Masters Leg 1 – 6f
• 3.40 Meydan Masters Leg 2 – 7f
• 4.15 Meydan Classic – 1m
• 4.50 Meydan Masters Leg 3 – 1m3f
• 5.30 Meydan Masters Leg 4 – 1m2f
• 6.10 Meydan Racecourse Conditions – 1m
• 6.45 Zabeel Mile (Gp 2)– 1m

The main feature outside of the four legs of the Meydan Masters is the final race of the Carnival which is the Group 2, Zabeel Mile, which sees the Mike De Kock trained, Imbongi, return to the Meydan Turf after finishing a short head second to the highly rated Bankable in the Al Fahidi Group 2 over 1 mile, on this track, two weeks ago. He will likely go off favourite for the race.

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