Dubai World Cup Day -- 31 March 2012

[wangkw]

RESULTS


DUBAI WORLD CUP Sponsored By Emirates Airline (Group 1) (Tapeta)

1m2f, £3,870,967.74

1 MONTEROSSO 20/1
2 Capponi 11/1
3 Planteur 14/1


NR: Silver Pond (FR)

13 ran Distances: 3l, ½l, ½l
TIME 2m 2.67s

Jockey: Mickael Barzalona
Trainer: Mahmood Al Zarooni


Dubai Sheema Classic Presented By Longines (Group 1) (Turf)
Full result
1m4f, £1,935,483.87

1 CIRRUS DES AIGLES 11/4
2 St Nicholas Abbey 9/4F
3 Jakkalberry 33/1


10 ran Distances: nk, 3½l, ½l
TIME 2m 31.30s

Jockey: Olivier Peslier
Trainer: Mme C Barande-Barbe



Dubai Duty Free Sponsored By Dubai Duty Free (Group 1) (Turf)

1m1f, £1,935,483.87

1 CITYSCAPE 8/1
2 Mutahadee 9/2
3 City Style 25/1


NR: Albaasil (IRE), Dubawi Gold

15 ran Distances: 4¼l, hd, 1¼l
TIME 1m 48.65s

Jockey: James Doyle
Trainer: Roger Charlton

Dubai Golden Shaheen Sponsored By Gulf News (Group 1) (Tapeta)

6f, £774,193.55

1 KRYPTON FACTOR 13/2
2 Rocket Man 3/1F
3 Lucky Nine 13/2


12 ran Distances: 2¼l, 2l, 1½l
TIME 1m 10.79s

Jockey: Kieren Fallon
Trainer: F Nass


Al Quoz Sprint Sponsored By Emirates NBD (Group 1) (Turf)

5f, £387,096.77

1 ORTENSIA 6/1
2 Sole Power 11/2F
3 Joy And Fun 6/1


NR: Eagle Regiment (AUS)

15 ran Distances: 1¼l, nk, nk
TIME 57.98s

Jockey: Craig A Williams
Trainer: Paul Messara


Dubai Gold Cup Sponsored By Al Tayer Motors (Group 3) (Turf)

2m, £387,096.77

1 OPINION POLL 10/11F
2 Joshua Tree 16/1
3 Zanzamar 18/1


NR: Fox Hunt (IRE)

12 ran Distances: ¾l, shd, 1¼l
TIME 3m 23.73s

Jockey: Frankie Dettori
Trainer: Mahmood Al Zarooni

[wangkw]

Only the long turf Dubai Sheema Classic is closer to ante post prediction...the rest are very much NBA 3 pointer shootouts.

Mon country Rocket Man failed to recapture the glory of last year...a 2nd is good enuff...I was somewhat surprised Sepoy had only two beaten in the field of 12.

In the 16f Gold Cup on turf, Joshua Tree finally made his presence felt but in such unlikely place.....a respectable 2nd and only 3/4 length behind consistent Opinion Poll, a son of Halling.

[erins isle]

Beautiful meeting, first race (Arabs) won by Dutch Adrie de Vries.

Very sad what happened with Fox Hunt. I was so pleased when he won the German St. Leger last year. Great family which I know so well.

[wangkw]

2 fatalities and 1 injury in one race..quite sad...there should have some sort of pre race screening I guess ?

[wilf]

Which genius decided that it would be a good idea to run the cancelled race AGAIN in the same card even after there was a fatality. So many red flags about doing that just to please the visitors I guess. Anyway all it did was kill 2 more horses. Are vet-checks not as thorough or non-existent? I am very unhappy and will make it known whenever and wherever I can. It's very difficult to break down a fit thoroughbred .....it takes a lot of blind eyes and /or stupidity which at the highest level of racing I find bewildering.

[Patuxet]

Wilf:

I followed the World Cup races on racingpost.com as they happened.

The decision to rerun the Gold Cup apparently occurred in collaboration with the wishes, if not at the behest, of the owners, trainers and jockeys involved in the initial aborted running.

Allison

[majxmom]

Which genius decided that it would be a good idea to run the cancelled race AGAIN in the same card even after there was a fatality. So many red flags about doing that just to please the visitors I guess. Anyway all it did was kill 2 more horses. Are vet-checks not as thorough or non-existent? I am very unhappy and will make it known whenever and wherever I can. It's very difficult to break down a fit thoroughbred .....it takes a lot of blind eyes and /or stupidity which at the highest level of racing I find bewildering.

I was absolutely gobsmacked when they decided to re-start that race. Maybe they've never had an abandoned race at Meydan and didn't know how to handle it. If they were concerned about being "fair" to the owners about trying to earn the money, they could have just divided the purse equally. After all, all of the purse money comes from sponsorship, not any handle, since they have no handle there. Re-starting that race was really irresponsible in light of all of the criticism racing has been taking the last few years. They should have thought more like the producers of "Luck" and thought about the guff they'd get if there was another breakdown...and there was not one, but two.

[wangkw]

Shouldn't the race be allowed to carry on in the 1st place ? Sad that Fox Hunt fell... At the time of his fall..he was travelling 4-wide...and more importantly..he was rolling outwards after breaking down.

See this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdfqCtnA ... re=related

[Sailor Kenshin]

Utter stupidity to void the first race at all.

PETA will be all over this. And it's PETA that rules racing, not the owners or trainers.

What's wrong with this picture?

[wilf]

Sailor .....PETA has nothing to do with issues like these unless it proves that we cannot even police ourselves and do the right thing anyway!

[Sailor Kenshin]

PETA stopped production of a TV series. It can do great damage to the industry, and it has NO LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY to do so.

[Lisann]

Shouldn't the race be allowed to carry on in the 1st place ? Sad that Fox Hunt fell... At the time of his fall..he was travelling 4-wide...and more importantly..he was rolling outwards after breaking down.

See this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdfqCtnA ... re=related

They said on TV that Fox Hunt was in the path of the race & they were unable to get him up. That's why the race was halted.

[Skipitgirl]

They couldnt get him up because he shattered both fronts and possibly one hind in his bid to stay up.