Dutrow narrows training focus to Big Brown
ELMONT, N.Y. -- Between the racetrack and the farm, trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. estimates he has about 175 horses in his care. But for the last month and a half, and definitely for the next 2 1/2 weeks, Dutrow's primary focus has been and will be on one.
On Tuesday, Dutrow was at Aqueduct to check in on the 45 or so horses he has based there. But on Wednesday, Dutrow was back at Belmont Park, where he watched Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown jog once around Belmont's wet 1 1/2-mile oval. On June 7, Big Brown will attempt to become Thoroughbred racing's 12th Triple Crown winner when he runs in the $1 million Belmont Stakes.
Michelle Nevin, the regular exercise rider of Big Brown, was in her usual seat Wednesday morning for Big Brown's first day on the track since his authoritative victory in last Saturday's Preakness.
"He was having a look around, playing around,'' Nevin said. "He's exactly the same way as he was in Florida, Churchill, Pimlico - relaxed, doesn't care about anything. He loves to look around. Compared to Pimlico, he had a lot of space.''
After Big Brown trained, Dutrow hung out at trainer Bobby Frankel's barn, where he has Big Brown stabled. He soaked in some sun and talked with a few reporters before doing a larger press conference at 11 a.m.
"I just need to be with him each and every day,'' Dutrow said about Big Brown. "It takes away from the other horses, it takes away from me, I'm not there, I'm missing things, I'm not around my horses. But I know this is what I've got to be doing.''
Dutrow doesn't seem to have a care in the world when it comes to Big Brown, although Dutrow did say the colt "burned a little hair off'' each of his hind ankles in the Preakness. Aside from that, Dutrow likes what he sees, and he almost doesn't want to have to wait until June 7 to run.
"I wish it was now, because our horse is good,'' he said. "I'm expecting things to just get better from here with the horse. The more he comes out of his race, the longer it is away from [the Preakness], the better he's going to be. So time is on our side right now because our horse is good, he's eating every oat since I've had him. Can't see an issue right now with our horse.''
Big Brown was scheduled to begin galloping on Thursday and is likely to have his one and only workout on the weekend before the Belmont. Dutrow said he won't be looking for much that day.
Between now and the Belmont, a lot will be made of Big Brown having to go up against Casino Drive, the Peter Pan winner who is a half-brother to the last two Belmont Stakes winners, Jazil and Rags to Riches.
To Dutrow, Casino Drive is just another horse in the race.
"I don't see that that horse can beat him,'' Dutrow said. "I watched Casino Drive run, I've watched our horse run.''
Dutrow did say that he believes Big Brown will run past the Belmont Stakes, even if the horse becomes just the second undefeated Triple Crown winner in history. Dutrow said Big Brown's goals would be the Travers at Saratoga on Aug. 23 and the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Oct. 25.
Dutrow said he would relish a meeting between Big Brown and defending Horse of the Year Curlin.
"I would like to see them run against each other,'' Dutrow said. "It would be good for racing, it would be good for us, it wouldn't be so good for them.''
In other Belmont news:
* Trainer Todd Pletcher said Behindatthebar, scratched from the Preakness due to a bruised foot, has gotten sounder and would probably resume training by the weekend. "I don't know where that leaves us as far as the Belmont,'' he said.
Pletcher also said that Ready's Echo, third in the Peter Pan, "is a definite maybe'' for the Belmont. "We're considering it.'' Ready's Echo is also under consideration for the Colonial Turf Cup at Colonial Downs on June 21.
* Trainer Dante Zanelli said Wednesday was Tomcito's "best day'' of training since he underwent a myectomy following his seventh-place finish in the Peter Pan Stakes. Zanelli said that if Tomcito continues to move forward, he will run in the Belmont.
* At Churchill Downs, Denis of Cork, the third-place finisher in the Derby, returned to light training Wednesday after breezing five furlongs in 1:01 two days beforehand. With trainer David Carroll aboard, Denis of Cork jogged two miles after having Tuesday off. "He'll go back to galloping [Thursday]," said Carroll.
* Also at Churchill, Macho Again walked the shed row for one more morning at trainer Dallas Stewart's barn. Macho Again, the Preakness runner-up, was scheduled to resume light training Thursday, said Stewart.
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Muted crowds return to Churchill Downs after Derby tragedy
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Frank Daniels stood outside the paddock at Churchill Downs on Wednesday, thinking about the first race of the day while watching a rebroadcast of the Kentucky Derby on a big screen.
Daniels is a racing fan who's been coming to Churchill Downs for 35 years. His eyes stayed fixed as Big Brown surged to victory. A split second later, filly Eight Belles followed, storming to the finish 4 3/4 lengths behind but well ahead of the remaining 18 colts.
"She didn't look hurt, did she," Daniels said. "That's a strong-looking horse right there."
What the replay didn't show, or anyone could have guessed as she lunged for the wire under jockey Gabriel Saez, is that Eight Belles would be dead a quarter-mile later after breaking both of her front legs as she galloped out.
She was quickly was euthanized on the track, tempering Big Brown's dominant win and raising questions on everything from the safety of the dirt at Churchill Downs to whether Saez abused Eight Belles with his whip in the dash to the wire.
Daniels rolls his eyes at the controversy. He's seen a lot of racing and a handful of injured horses put down on the track. He considers what happened to Eight Belles an accident.
"It was just a freak thing," he said. "When you have people like (veterinarian) Larry Bramlage saying they've never seen anything like that in their career, it just shows you how odd it really is."
While saddened by Eight Belles' tragic end and empathetic for trainer Larry Jones - himself a Kentuckian - many patrons said the furor over her death is overblown.
"It wasn't the track; it wasn't the breeding," Brian Johnston said. "It was a fluke. The people who are talking are people who don't watch it all year. This is a part of racing. If they want to try and make it safer, I'm all for it, but this wasn't anybody's fault."
Though the Kentucky Derby Museum has received a handful of letters and a flower arrangement in support of Eight Belles, there hasn't been the kind of overwhelming response to her death that accompanied 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro's injury in the Preakness.
The fans at Churchill Downs on Wednesday already appeared to have moved on. There wasn't an Eight Belles hat or pin to be seen in the modest crowd of a few thousand, though there were more than a few Big Brown hats scattered about the grandstand.
Barbaro's remains will be buried outside Gate 1 at Churchill Downs. Plans to honour Eight Belles at the track have not been completed with owner Rick Porter, spokesman Darren Rogers said. The track is forwarding most of its well-wishes to Delaware Park in Wilmington, Del., at Jones' request. The Derby museum is passing along cards to Fox Hill Farms in Lexington, which is owned Porter.
"She really touched a lot of people, I think, because she's a filly," museum spokeswoman Wendy Treinen said. "But with Barbaro, he had eight months after he was hurt where his battle was chronicled. This was just so sudden."
While the questions will linger, the racing will go on.
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Behindatthebar to try for run at Preakness
Behindatthebar, winner of the Lexington Stakes and trained by Todd Pletcher, became the latest 3-year-old to have his sights set on the May 17 Preakness at Pimlico Race Course.
Pletcher said yesterday that after a talk with Satish and Sasha Sanan, who own the horse in partnership with Michael Shustek and Don Stanley, it was decided not to race the colt in Saturday's Kentucky Derby.
"I spoke with Satish and Sasha Sanan, and we all thought 16 days between two races was a lot of pressure to put on the horse," Pletcher said. "If he'd gone to the Derby, it would have been three races in 30 days. In all fairness to the horse, who I believe has incredible potential, we will continue to go the classic route by pointing toward the Preakness."
Behindatthebar, a son of Forest Wildcat, joins Kentucky Bear, Yankee Bravo and Tres Borrachos as 3-year-olds whose trainers have indicated to the Pimlico's Racing Office that they intend to run in the Preakness, barring unforeseen circumstances.
*Kentucky Derby // Calvin Borel's chance to become the first jockey to win consecutive Kentucky Derbys in 25 years lives on. When Pletcher decided to have Behindatthebar skip the Derby, it opened the door for Borel's ride, Denis of Cork. Behindatthebar was 17th on the graded-stakes earnings list, which determines who runs in the race if more than 20 are entered. Denis of Cork, which ran fifth in the Illinois Derby, was 21st. The move means Borel, who rode Street Sense to victory in May, has a shot at becoming the first jockey since Eddie Delahoussaye in 1982 and 1983 to win two straight Derbys. Denis of Cork, who won his first three races before his only defeat, would be trainer David Carroll's first Derby starter.
*Simulcasting // MidAtlantic Cooperative LLC, the simulcast purchasing enterprise that represents 16 regional racetracks, including Rosecroft Raceway in Fort Washington, has been unable to reach a new simulcast agreement with New York Racing Association Inc. Beginning tomorrow, MidAtlantic Cooperative members will not simulcast NYRA racing from Belmont Park. The change will not affect the simulcast of the Belmont Stakes, for which a separate agreement has been reached.
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Woman arrested in felony theft: Former Dogwood Stable employee allegedly stole $296K from owner
A former Dogwood Stable office manager has been arrested on allegations she stole more than a quarter-million dollars over four years from stable president Cot Campbell's personal account, writing and cashing checks for herself, according to arrest warrants.
Elizabeth Darby Copeland, 33, of Northwood Drive in Aiken, is charged with four counts of breach of trust in an amount greater than $5,000. Each of the four felony charges carries with it a maximum of 10 years in prison.
Since its formation by Campbell in 1969, Aiken-based Dogwood Stable has boasted many winning racehorses, six entries in the Kentucky Derby and a 1990 Preakness winner with Summer Squall. Campbell pioneered the concept of group ownership in Thoroughbred racing, meaning Dogwood offers shares in its horses to investors around the world.
Aiken Public Safety investigators say the recently dismissed employee took a total sum of approximately $296,000.
Campbell contacted the Internal Revenue Service earlier this month after failing to receive a refund he had been expecting and was told he had not filed with the government in several years.
He said he then questioned Copeland.
"She said she had not sent them in and had taken the money," Campbell explained.
The former employee is accused of destroying the checks written to the government and writing checks to herself instead.
"We terminated her immediately," he said.
Copeland was first hired in 2003, after receiving a finance degree from USC Aiken.
Campbell said he believes the thefts began shortly thereafter. The investigation shows the nearly $300,000 missing was taken over a four-year period in varying amounts, according to the warrants.
Between February 2004 and December of that year, she is accused of stealing approximately $21,000 from Campbell's account by writing checks to herself and cashing them for her own personal use without his consent or authorization, according to the arrest warrants.
As more details emerged, police said they found the employee took approximately $101,000 from the account in 2005, having again written checks to herself.
In 2006, she is accused of writing approximately $110,000 worth of checks, according to warrants.
In 2007, the amount allegedly stolen totaled $63,000, according to warrants.
Campbell said the revelations were personally very disheartening.
"All of my business life I have had trust in my employees and relied on an assistant to take care of the details of my finances," he said. "It worked well until now."
The 80-year-old stable president said the money is missing from his personal account and has nothing to do with Dogwood itself.
"Now I'm working with both the state and federal governments to begin paying them," he said. Copeland turned herself in to the authorities Thursday at Aiken Public Safety's headquarters building on Laurens Street.
She was arrested, booked and taken before Judge Tracey Carroll for a bond hearing.
Her bond was set at $50,000, and she was released after posting the required 10 percent bond with the court.
Campbell said he doesn't know how much, if any, of the money he will get back.
"That's really up to the solicitor's office and what a judge orders in restitution," he said. "She betrayed us and created malice where there was trust."
Police have said the case is still under investigation and have not said where they believe the missing money went or if any of it remains.
Copeland said her attorney has advised her not to make any comments.
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Salute the Sarge playing safe
ARCADIA, Calif. - Salute the Sarge, the winner of three sprint stakes, including the San Miguel Stakes on March 29, remains on course for the $325,000 Coolmore Lexington Stakes at Keeneland on April 19, but is doubtful for the Kentucky Derby on May 3, trainer Eric Guillot said on Wednesday.
Guillot said he would like to start Salute the Sarge in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 17, the second leg of the Triple Crown, if the colt runs well in the Grade 2 Lexington Stakes over 1 1/16 miles.
The decision to bypass the Kentucky Derby has ramifications among the horses on the earnings bubble for the race. A winner of 4 of 7 starts and $333,340, Salute the Sarge has earned $258,940 in graded stakes, which would almost certainly assure him a berth in the Kentucky Derby. Graded earnings is the determining factor on who makes the field if the race draws more than 20 horses.
The San Miguel Stakes is Salute the Sarge's only start this year, and Guillot said he didn't think the colt would be ready for the Derby.
"If he runs well in the Lexington, I'll go to the Preakness," Guillot said. "I don't think he's a mile-and-a-quarter horse."
Last year, Salute the Sarge won two sprint stakes and was second in the Norfolk Stakes and ninth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. The Norfolk and BC Juvenile were over 1 1/16 miles. Guillot said he's still not sure whether Salute the Sarge can be effective around two turns.
"I've got to find out if he can route," Guillot said. "Before when he routed, he was sore."
Guillot said that even if Salute the Sarge ran brilliantly in the Lexington Stakes that the Kentucky Derby would remain unlikely.
"I think I've got my partner convinced that it's not the right thing," he said of Salute the Sarge's owner, Michael Moreno.
The Guillot-trained Signature Move, who finished last in the Santa Anita Derby last Saturday, has been turned out for four months because of lung problems.
"His lungs are stressed," Guillot said. "He'll be a good horse in the fall."
Coast Guard, Polonius to go on turf
Coast Guard and Polonius, third and ninth in the Santa Anita Derby, will make their next start on turf.
Coast Guard, who finished 1 1/2 lengths behind the race's winner, Colonel John, is being considered for the $150,000 Crown Royal American Turf Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 2, trainer David Hofmans said. Another option is the $100,000 Will Rogers Stakes at Hollywood Park on May 17.
"There are a lot of grass races around the country," Hofmans said. "We have to hash it out."
Owned by Amerman Racing, Coast Guard has yet to win a stakes, a factor in the decision to bypass the Kentucky Derby, Hofmans said.
"If he had another race we might consider it," he said.
Polonius was third on the turn in the Santa Anita Derby, but faded through the final quarter-mile in his synthetic track debut. He will be pointed for the Will Rogers Stakes.
"Maybe he's a middle-distance turf horse," trainer Michael Pender said."We know that he's not a synthetic horse."
Owned by B.J. Wright, Polonius has won 2 of 4 starts and $79,020. He won the Pasadena Stakes on turf at Santa Anita in March.
Georgie Boy to get further tests
Georgie Boy, who was taken out of consideration for the Santa Anita Derby and Triple Crown on March 31 because of a pulled back muscle, is showing improvement and will undergo further tests later this month, trainer Kathy Walsh said.
"He's coming around pretty good," Walsh said. "Maybe you err on the side of caution more than you should."
Walsh said that Georgie Boy would undergo a nuclear scan test later this month to better determine his condition. No timetable has been set for a return to racing.
Georgie Boy won the San Felipe Stakes in March to become a leading contender for the Santa Anita Derby. The injury was detected at the start of Santa Anita Derby week, a few days after Georgie Boy had a workout.
Owned by George Schwary, Georgie Boy has won 4 of 7 starts and $496,806.
Top riders scatter
Jockey David Flores, fourth in the Santa Anita standings, will be the highest-ranking rider here on Saturday.
Garrett Gomez, the leader, and runner-up Rafael Bejarano will be riding at Keeneland. Tyler Baze, who is in third place, is riding Tres Borrachos in the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park on Saturday.
Gomez is gone for the remainder of the meeting, which ends on April 20, while Bejarano and Baze return to ride at Santa Anita on Sunday.
Flores has the mount on Phantom Strike in Saturday's top race, the $100,000 La Puente Stakes for 3-year-olds over a mile on turf. Phantom Strike is making his stakes debut after winning a maiden special weight race over a mile on turf in February for owners Al and Sandee Kirkwood and trainer Tim Yakteen.
The field of 12 lacks a standout, but does include the stakes winners Ez Dreamer (Rattlesnake Stakes at Turf Paradise), and Nevada Worrier (Cavonnier Stakes at Santa Anita).
The race will be the turf stakes debut of No Jepordy, who was third in the Borderland Derby and fourth in the WinStar Derby at Sunland Park in his last two starts. No Jepordy had the lead at the eighth pole in the WinStar Derby, but faded in the final furlong of the 1 1/8-mile race.
"He gave us a thrill turning for home," trainer Doug O'Neill said.
Owned by Paul Reddam, No Jepordy won a maiden special weight race on turf at Santa Anita on Feb. 2.
"He's shown that he likes the grass," O'Neill said.
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Georgie Boy likely off Derby trail
Georgie Boy, winner of this year's San Vicente and San Felipe stakes, was declared out of Saturday's Santa Anita Derby yesterday -- almost certainly ending his Kentucky Derby bid -- when trainer Kathy Walsh announced the gelding has a pulled back muscle.
"It's high on his back end, and we don't know how long it will take (to heal), but we're not going to take a chance," Walsh told Santa Anita's publicity office. "He was a little tight in his back end … and we had him tested and X-rayed, and everything was fine in that regard.
"The vet examined him today and was very happy with what he saw other than the pulled muscle. He will not require surgery. I don't know how long he'll be out, but (owner/breeder George Schwary) is very patient, and we'll give the horse all the time he needs and let him tell us when to come back. Obviously, the Santa Anita Derby is out, and I wouldn't want to run him in the Kentucky Derby without a prep race. Maybe we'll see him in the Pacific Classic" at Del Mar in August.
California-bred Georgie Boy is 4-2-1 from seven starts, with earnings of $496,806. He won the Grade I Del Mar Futurity last September.
Late nomineesinclude 2 fillies
Headed by Larry Jones-trained fillies Proud Spell and Eight Belles, 10 horses were nominated late to the Triple Crown at a cost of $6,000 apiece, bringing the total of nominees to 459 for the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes -- one fewer than last year's record.
The late nominations were due by midnight Saturday. The early period, when the cost was $600, closed Jan. 19. The total nominating fees of $329,400 will be split equally among Churchill Downs, Pimlico and Belmont Park.
Proud Spell, owned and bred by former Kentucky Gov. Brereton Jones, defeated previously unbeaten champion Indian Blessing in the Fair Grounds Oaks. She will race in Saturday's Grade I Ashland Stakes at Keeneland. Eight Belles won Oaklawn's Grade III Honeybee Stakes.
Elysium Fields suffered'severe overheating'
Elysium Fields' 11th-place finish as the second choice in Saturday's Florida Derby is being attributed to overheating.
"He got pretty hot as they got to the gate, and his temperature was up after the race," said Robin Smullen, assistant to trainer Barclay Tagg. "He didn't get heatstroke, but it looks like a severe overheating."
Elysium Fields finished 43 lengths behind undefeated Big Brown.
"Luckily, (jockey) Eibar (Coa) didn't press him," Smullen said. "He could tell the horse just wasn't himself after a half-mile, and he didn't push him because if he had it could have turned into a full-blown heatstroke.
"At least the horse came back OK, and we went over him completely. … We just have to chalk it up to the heat and live to fight another day."
Elysium Fields will travel to Keeneland this week. His second-place finish in the Fountain of Youth puts him on the bubble in terms of having enough graded-stakes earnings to make the Kentucky Derby if more than 20 horses enter.
"I can't imagine we could go into the Derby off a race like that," Smullen said. "Since it was a heat issue, we will have to see how he does in the cooler weather (in Kentucky). If he gets up there, and he starts acting like a bear, Barclay could decide to race him up there. It's the kind of thing that will be day-to-day."
Denis of Cork favoredin Illinois Derby
Undefeated Denis of Cork is the 2-1 morning-line favorite in a field of seven 3-year-olds entered yesterday for Saturday's $500,000, Grade II Illinois Derby at Hawthorne Race Course.
Denis of Cork is 3 for 3 but has not raced since winning Oaklawn's Grade III Southwest Stakes. Owner William Warren and Churchill Downs-based trainer David Carroll bypassed the Rebel Stakes in favor of a single prep leading to the Kentucky Derby.
Tampa Bay Derby runner-up Atoned (4-1) figures to be Denis of Cork's most serious challenger in the Illinois Derby. Golden Spikes (5-1) is the third choice.
Denis of Cork worked six furlongs Sunday at Churchill in 1:13.
"He's been on edge now for a little while, and we just wanted him to go out there and stretch his legs … and he did it beautifully," Carroll said. "… We're very happy with him, and now hopefully he'll run big in Illinois. We need to run big there."
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Curlin can 'rule' the world
DUBAI - After his impressive UAE debut in only prep race last February, the Eclipse Award winner for 2007 Horse of the Year Curlin stretched his legs yesterday morning ahead of what could be another tough test in the Dubai World Cup under the flood lights of Nad Al Sheba Racecourse here this evening.
The four-year-old Smart Strike colt blasted his way through US competition by winning the Preakness, Jockey Club Gold Cup, and Breeder's Cup Classic last year and he has his sights set on the world's richest trophy in terms of prize-money.
Assistant trainer Scott Blasi made a last-minute change in plan yesterday morning, taking Curlin to the Nad Al Sheba training track around 6:40am rather than appearing on the main track, with the hopes of providing a more peaceful atmosphere for the colt the day before the $6 million World Cup, sponsored by Emirates Airline.
"I just decided that we're ready and what's done is done, and that a quiet day would be good for the horse. My job is to get him to the race as best as we can," Blasi said.
"We just took him out to give him a little exercise and keep him happy."
Curlin galloped a mile (1,600m) on the training track, where there were fewer horses training and far fewer members of the media gathered.
Jockey Robby Albarado arrived in Dubai on Thursday night and trainer Steve Asmussen was due yesterday evening, Blasi said. Curlin has drawn the 12 post in the field of 13.
Albarado said: "It's a moment I've been waiting for ever since it was announced he was headed to Dubai earlier in the year. As many of you know, I'm quite fond of Curlin and consider him the greatest horse I've had the pleasure of seeing with my own eyes.
"I know that's a bold statement, but I firmly stand behind it. I cheered for him all throughout his three-year-old campaign, including the euphoria of winning the Preakness and the Classic, as well as the agony of losing in the Belmont and Kentucky Derby.
"It's been a roller-coaster ride, for sure, but I never for a moment doubted how talented he is. Despite his wins in the Preakness and Classic, Curlin is still not quite as well known as I'd like him to be.
"From conversations I've had over the past year with folks who are not regular fans of the game, it's easy to observe that Street Sense has somehow achieved more fame and name based recognition.
This bothers me for a number of reasons, most notably that Curlin is 2 for 3 when head to head with Street Sense, and probably would've made it 3 for 3 if not for a 'kiss of death' post position (the 2 hole) in the 2007 Kentucky Derby.
"Nonetheless, the public somehow remains fascinated with Street Sense, who has long since retired, while Curlin continues to march towards history.
"Owner Jess Jackson brought him back for his 4-year-old campaign after we yet again watched with disappointment as the top 3 year olds in the nation retired to the breeding shed."
Jackson said he wanted racing fans to have a hero to cheer for, and wanted a super star that could attract fans to the sport and restore some of the luster to our struggling sport.
"A win by Curlin this weekend would do much towards fulfilling that vision," the connections were quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, a win in Dubai could make Curlin lower the Cigar's figure in terms of financial earnings.
It's reported that he's already racked up over $5 million in lifetime earnings with his seven wins in 10 lifetime starts.
Currently that honour is held by the legendary Cigar, who won $9,999,815 over a storied career.
With $3.6 million purse money on the line in Dubai, Curlin will need one million or so to ride the wave and rewrite the history of racing sport.
But, Curlin will be facing an impressive array of competitors from all over the world.
A record equalling field of 13 horses will line up to take their shot at the American super-horse.
Top Italian jockey Frankie Dettori who will be aboard the Godolphin's hope Jalil admitted that his job is not going to be easy, but still there's room for every one to win in the race.
"There's no unbeatable horse," Dettori noted.
And although the Godolphin's chief executive Simon Crisford and first jockey Dettori said they appreciate that Curlin is the world's highest rated horse in training, trainer Saeed bin Suroor insisted Jalil is his best chance in the six-race card.
The South African representative Asiatic Boy has been reportedly sharpened for the race after having appointed last time out, trainer Mike De Kock said he is looking forward to make history by winning the Dubai World Cup with the same horse who won the UAE Derby last year.
But, trainer Eoin Hartly put the naked fact between brackets when he told the crowd at Madinat Jumeirah on Wednesday afternoon that: "Even if they started Curlin on Nad Al Sheba road, it won't make much difference."
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