It had drawn horsemen from across the world for the last 14 years, for a race whose roll of honour carries names like Cigar, Dubai Millennium and Curlin. But I suppose the pace of change in Dubai was such that it had to give way to something bigger – and this new grandstand is about a mile long. Even as the runners were being loaded into the starting stalls for Nad Al Sheba’s final hurrah last March, the bulldozers were starting up and its replacement was already casting its own impressive shadow.
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