Dubai Duty Free
 

This race will be the best quality race for all of 2009.

Its about time this race (and the Sheema Classic) got equal billing with the World Cup!

The World Cup is dreadful this year.

The Duty Free will be a terrific race. It will not break my heart to see Kip Deville beaten handily at all.

NT

Who are the good horses running?

Which ones arent good horses?

:tro:

An absolutely stellar field!

I have no idea who's running.

ALEXANDROS Godolphin UAE Saeed bin Suroor UAE
ARCHIPENKO
Sh Mohd Khalifa Al Maktoum & Dr AH Parker &
Mrs RMA Parker, M F De Kock, J Malherbe & Dr
J McVeigh, Hugo Merry
UAE Mike de Kock Sth Africa
BALIUS Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum UAE Abdulla bin Huzaim UAE
BANKABLE Ronchalon Racing UK Limited UK Mike de Kock Sth Africa
CHARLIE FARNSBARNS The English Girls UK Brian Meehan UK
CREACHADOIR Godolphin UAE Saeed bin Suroor UAE
GLADIATORUS Sh Mansoor bin Mohd Al Maktoum UAE Mubarak bin Shafya UAE
HYPERBARIC Prestonwood Farm Inc USA Julio Canani USA
JAY PEG E Braun, M Shirtliff, P Loomes, S Marcus Sth Africa Herman Brown Sth Africa
KIP DEVILLE
IEAH Stables, Andrew Cohen, Pegasus Holding
Group Stables, Resolute Group Stables & Steve
Cohen
USA Richard Dutrow USA
NICONERO Peter Bernard Devitt, Leslie Charles Gordon &
David Andrew Hayes AUS David Hayes AUS
PACO BOY The Calvera Partnership 2 UK Richard Hannon UK
PRESVIS Léonidas Marinopoulos UK Luca Cumani UK
RUSSIAN SAGE L M Nestadt, Team Valor & G Barber Sth Africa Mike de Kock Sth Africa
TUESDAY JOY Strawberry Hill Stud Syndicate AUS Gai Waterhouse AUS
VODKA Yuzo Tanimizu JPN Katsuhiko Sumii JPN

Wasn't Paco Boy the horse who completely ran off with the Prix De La Foret? Has he run since? That was a huge effort.

Kip Deville will get completely smoked.

That was him, don't think he's run since and yeah agree about Kip.

I was trying to be smart!

10 G1 winners (Archipenko, Creachadoir, Hyperbaric, Jay Peg x4, Kip Devile x4, Lady Marian, Niconero x5, Paco Boy, Tuesday Joy x4, Vodka x4)

Throw in the potential monsters Prevsis, Gladitorius and the multiple G1 placed Balius and you have a field that will be tough to match this year!

Yeah he was unreal that day - hasnt raced since, its 2f more than his optimum trip though, he wont get the trip this early in the season.. He's a poor favourite!

Awww, don't leave out Russian Sage. He just hasn't won a G1.

YET. :)

is he still running?

EDIT - he has won 3 G1s but isnt on racingpost's entries or on many of the bookmakers lists

Yeah, far as I know... why wouldn't he?

Happy Boy is starting to find his form after Godolphin butchered him.

Assuming he's actually entering - I'll take him in an upset in the World Cup.

Aren't a bunch of these Group 1 horses South African which means they may not exactly be world class?

Wasn't he a late scratch last year?

Go Niconero!

Good luck to you. Respectfully, I'm not seeing it.

3 races this season... 11th, 2nd, 2nd.

I think My Indy, Muller, Asiatic Boy, possibly Muhannak (Ryan Moore got the mount) and Well Armed have more of a shot but I'm wrong most of the time, so...

(These aren't picks... just who I'm finding interesting).