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Salute The Soldier became the first horse to win two editions of Maktoum Challenge Round 3 (G1), rolling back the years in Super Saturday’s $450,000 feature at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai. The race is a prep for the $12-million Dubai World Cup (G1) in three weeks time.
I love Super Saturday. It is a day of prep races for the Dubai World Cup, so it feels a bit like the big day, but there is less security and no issues with parking. It is a great, relaxed, day out and you get to watch two Group 1 races for as little as AED2 ($0.5). Bargain. Onto the racing, which there is plenty of. There are nine races on the card at Meydan on Saturday and
This might be the best week yet for international participation at the Carnival, with horses from 10 countries set to line up across the seven races on Friday. It should still be a good night for the home Godolphin team, however. They have a stranglehold on the night’s feature, the Group 3 Nad Al-Sheba Trophy. They’ve won it nine times, including the last six, and field four