The Dubai World Cup takes place today at Meydan Racecourse in NadAl Sheba, Dubai, UAE, with a large crowdexpected to watch the nine races that will be held. The racecourse opened in2010, and can seat upwards of 60,000 spectators. Today's is the richest horse racing meetingin the world, with US $35 million atstake. The race day is held annually onthe last Saturday in March that is today. $12m of the prize money will beat stake in the main event, the Dubai World Cup, with the focus on whetherGodolphin's Thunder Snow can become the first horse to win the race twice,having won just 12 months ago. Godolphin (جودلفين) is the Maktoum family's private Thoroughbred horseracing stable and was named in honour of the Godolphin Arabian, who came from the desert to become one of the three founding stallions of the modern Thoroughbred. The firm was founded in the early 1990s, and has stables at Newmarket and in Australia, and also horses in training in many countries. They may very well Improve their record today with Thunder Snow. Here is a breakdown of what is atstake in every race, times listed are local. 3.45pmDubai Kahayla Classic - $1m 4.15pmGodolphin Mile - $1.5m 4.50pmDubai Gold Cup - $1.5m 5.30pmAl Quoz Sprint - $2m 6.05pmUAE Derby - $2.5m 6.40pmDubai Golden Shaheen - $2.5m 7.20pmDubai Turf - $6m 8pmDubai Sheema Classic - $6m 8.40pm -Dubai World Cup - $12m Don'tforget, in the USA, NCAA Men's Basketball continues with Elite Eight playoffstoday. Also,Major League Baseball continues forward, after this past week's opening days. More tomorrow! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
