The Gulf News has published a gallery of pictures from the Dubai World Cup here.
If you’re into fashion and rich people in ugly hats who have had too much to drink this gallery is for you.
Obviously someone has watched Priscilla Queen of the Desert one too many times, talk about feathers!
Entries Tagged as ‘Dubai World Cup’
March 31, 2008
World Cup Photos
March 29, 2008
The Cheap and the Dead
For a guy who spends hundreds of millions on this game, the Dubai World Cup was another glaring example of how Sheik Mohammad’s open wallet policy always leaves him a day late and a dollar short on racing’s biggest days. For a guy who spends tens of millions on racing stock, the World Cup results [...]
March 28, 2008
Absent By Design
You won’t see Aidan O’Brien or any of the Coolmore boys at Nad tomorrow as Coolmore continues to boycott the World Cup card. Coolmore and Godolphin still refuse to play nice and this longstanding feud between two really rich guys seems kind of petty and stupid to those of us who struggle to pay off [...]
March 20, 2008
Curlin Not A Mortal Lock in the World Cup
The Racing Post is reporting:
MULTI-MILLION dollar colt Jalil has received a vote of confidence for the Dubai World Cup – from Hamdan Al Maktoum.
Speaking to reporters in Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan reckoned the four-year-old, who has scored a hat-trick on the sand this winter, will be the one to give odds-on favourite Curlin the most [...]
April 2, 2007
The Rise and Fall of the Breeders Cup
One thing this year’s World Cup program did was to deliver on its billing as the World Cup. The vision and deep pockets of the Maktoums have made global racing a reality that is now thriving and ironically it thrived this year at the expense of Godolphin who for the first year in my memory [...]
