HORSE RACING
Dubai World Cup winners
By Chris Dinsdale
March 30, 2019 - The 24th running of the world’s richest raceday, including the $12 million Dubai World Cup, takes place at Dubai’s Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates.
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The raceday moved to the new Meydan Racecourse when it opened in 2010, but the track’s controversial synthetic Tapeta surface was replaced with a coventional dirt track in 2015 after a fall in the number of U.S.-trained horses.
Connections of Thunder Snow, trained by eight-time World Cup winner Saeed bin Suroor, are aiming for a second successive triumph after Christophe Soumillon rode the horse to victory in record time last year.