Posts tagged Sheikh Mohammed
Frankie Dettori rides Casamento in Racing Post Trophy
Oct 18th
Michael Halford knows how good Casamento is. After the colt won the Group Two Beresford Stakes at the Curragh a month ago the trainer described him as “the best horse I’ve had, by a long way”. However, he also knows that Saturday’s run in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster could be a first Group [...]
Poet’s Voice is Godolphin’s Champion
Oct 16th
Money may not buy success, as Sheikh Mohammed has found out in over 30 years as one of the main players in world Flat racing, but it helps. When the penny finally dropped with Poet’s Voice, and he went from headstrong rebel to team player, Godolphin laid out £20,000 for a late entry to the [...]
Godolphin go worldwide
Sep 3rd
Out of sight can easily be out of mind in sport, where time out of the spotlight can send careers into decline. It is almost a year since the royal-blue silks of Godolphin were seen in the winner’s enclosure of a British racecourse after a Group One race, when Mastery won the St Leger at [...]
Big overseas challenge for Melbourne Cup
Aug 4th
The Victoria Racing Club are pushing the boat out for this year’s Melbourne Cup and the overseas challengers are clamouring for a ticket. This is the 150th running of the famous two-mile handicap – commonly billed in Australia as “the race that stops a nation” – and when the entries closed, with 45 foreign-trained horses, [...]
Aidan O’Brien retains Derby options
May 31st
Aidan O’Brien has kept all six entries at the latest declaration stage for the Investec Derby at Epsom on Saturday. There is still no word on which horse Johnny Murtagh will ride but Godolphin have added two more runners to make a team of three. To read full blog: http://blogs.bettor.com/Fifteen-left-in-the-Derby-a11817
Meydan under starter’s orders
Jan 28th
If a man might be judged by the books that he chooses to read would it be any surprise if a copy of Great Expectations has a place of prominence in the library of Sheikh Mohammed? World Cup night in Dubai has always been a bit different to the rest of world racing. Grand plans [...]
New course on track at Meydan
Jan 21st
Yesterday we reported that all is not well with the turf course at Meydan, just over a week before the first meeting of the Dubai International Racing Carnival takes place next Thursday. The rumour is that the turf track will not be used that night, and not as often as scheduled before the Dubai World [...]
Surface problems go deeper
Jan 20th
George Bernard Shaw once opined that: “all evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.” In America that heresy has been to suggest that dirt tracks may have had their day. For the last two years European runners have enjoyed conspicuous success at the Breeders’ Cup, where the meeting has [...]
Derby gamblers who are in for the long haul
Dec 17th
Credit crunch, what credit crunch? Dow Jones? Never heard of the bloke. For those who cannot even see January for the fiscal pile-up that is Christmas, June 2011 is another world, but on planet horseracing thoughts of the Investec Derby in two years’ time are on the minds of those who can afford it. The [...]
Pregnant pause before the big bang
Dec 1st
For a man who could be safely regarded as a stalwart of capitalism, Sheikh Mohammed has shown a marked tendency towards one of the basic theories of communism over the years. The ownership of the means of production doubtless had a different meaning to Karl Marx than it does for the man with the smoking [...]
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