Charlie Appleby Sends Ottoman Fleet Stateside For Saturday's Fort Marcy Stakes - Horse Racing News
Ottoman Fleet will look to make his stateside debut a winning one for trainer Charlie Appleby in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Fort Marcy
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Ottoman Fleet will look to make his stateside debut a winning one for trainer Charlie Appleby in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Fort Marcy
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
On Al Maktoum winner Algiers: “He’s the best we have in the UAE and this opens up options now, whether it be here or Saudi.”
Rain did its best but didn’t manage to stop play at Meydan last week, although it was undoubtedly a soggy affair. This played to the strengths of the visiting Europeans, however, who managed two wins. First came the Irish-trained Coachello in the Dubai Sprint, while Good Fortune now owns a slice of history, having become the first Denmark-trained horse to win at the Carnival.
Original writer/producer Craig McCracken is set to develop both projects