Godolphin set for the Dubai World Cup Night
Winning the current races is just as important as planning for the future ones for Godolphin Racing, as they have already given in the entries for the grand racing night with the richest race card, the Dubai World Cup Night on 31st March,
2012.
The assortment of the horses participating would as always be from the two leading UAE trainers, Saeed bin Suroor and Mahmood Al Zarooni.
The highlighting event for the last and final fixture of the Dubai World Cup Carnival is the Group 1 $10 million Dubai World Cup, for which Godolphin has proposed its twenty two entries, out of which the most prominent are Dubai Prince, Casamento,
Blue Bunting and French Navy, all four representing Mahmood Al Zarooni.
It will be raced over a distance of ten furlongs on Tapeta.
The four-year-old Dubai Prince has missed only one race out of his four starts till yet.
After breaking through the maiden stakes on 25th September, 2010, he won the Group 3 JRA Killavullan Stakes on 25th October, 2010, at Leopardstown.
On 16th September 2011, he won the Dubai Duty Free Conditions Stakes at Newbury.
The four-year-old chestnut colt, Casamento, won the Group 3 Prix Du Prince D’Orange on 17th September, 2011, at Longchamp, out of the four starts that he made last season.
Out of the five times that the four-year-old filly, Blue Bunting, raced in 2011, she claimed three races.
The Group 1 Qipco 1,000 Guineas on 1st May, 2011 at Newmarket, was the first and then on 17th July, 2011, she won the Group 1 Darley Irish Oaks at Curragh.
Her last victory of the season was in the Group 1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks on 18th August, 2011, at York.
The last race that the four-year-old bay chestnut colt, French Navy won was the Group 3 Betfred Bonus King Select Stakes on 10th September, 2011, at Goodwood.
All the four entries will be making their season debuts, and are also to participate in the Group 1 US $5 million Dubai Sheema Classic that will be raced over a mile and a half on turf.
To contest for the same race, Saeed bin Suroor's entries include Cavalryman, Holberg and Campanologist.
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