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AL BASTAKIYA (LISTED)
$150,000 | 1900m (dirt) | TB
Winner: PANADOL (USA)
Pedigree: Flatter (USA) - Arradoul (USA) by Dixieland Band (USA)
Owner: Sh Hamdan bin Mohd Al Maktoum
Trainer: S bin Ghadayer
Jockey: Mickael Barzalona
Official Time: 1:58.13
Track Record: 01:55:18 - MENDELSSOHN - 2018
Race Record : 1:58:05 - YULONG WARRIOR - 2018
Margin of Victory: 3/4 Length

Seven races at the penultimate Jebel Ali meeting of the ongoing season, highlighted by a 1200m conditions race for 3-year-olds, was won in taking fashion by Hawa Bilady.

Three weeks before the UAE’s biggest day of horseracing, the Dubai World Cup card, this weekend’s Super Saturday is a ‘dress rehearsal’ with all seven races mirroring the conditions of one of those on the big day, officially highlighted by the Group 1 Al Maktoum Challenge R3 on dirt along with the Group 1 Jebel Hatta, the turf highlight.

The seventh meeting of the 2021 Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan, is sponsored by Pillar Partners Emirates.

Group 1 $390,000 Al Maktoum Challenge R3 (2000m D)

The Dubai World Cup meeting celebrates its historic 25th anniversary on March 27, with six Group 1 races and three Group 2s, including one of the world's premier races, the $12 million Dubai World Cup, sponsored by Emirates Airline.

Over the next three weeks, we will pay tribute to each of the previous Dubai World Cup winners. Today, we rewind to 1998, when Silver Charm won the Dubai World Cup title for Bob Baffert. The first of many successful outings in the UAE for the American trainer.

The Dubai World Cup meeting celebrates its’ historic 25th anniversary on March 27, 2021, with six Group 1 races and three Group 2s, including one of the world's premier races -its namesake feature-the $12million Dubai World Cup sponsored by Emirates Airline.

Over the next three weeks we will pay tribute to each of the previous Dubai World Cup winners. We rewind back to 1996, and the very first winner of the Dubai World Cup race – worth $4 million at the time, won in thrilling fashion by America’s Cigar.

The traditional seven races at Al Ain on Friday evening, a meeting highlighted by the 1800m Al Ain Derby, a Prestige contest for 4-year-olds foaled in the UAE and won in determined fashion by AF Mahzamy under a positive Tadhg O’Shea for his main employer, Khalid Khalifa Al Nabooda and trainer Ernst Oertel.

Inaugurated in 2016, the owner and trainer became the first dual winners of the prize they also landed in 2017 with AF Taraha, partnered by Antonio Fresu.

Thursday’s sixth Meydan meeting of the 2021 Dubai World Cup Carnival officially featured the Group 3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy sponsored by Gulf News.

Group 3 $195,000 Nad Al Sheba Trophy (2810m T)
Godolphin supplied half of the eight runners and promptly delivered the first four home, Frankie Dettori and Volcanic Sky leading home the quartet for Saeed bin Suroor. Fully 800m out, the Italian had a cheeky look, to see how those behind him were travelling, before grasping the initiative about 100m later, sweeping past early leader Corsen before the field swung into the long home straight.