If you’d like to see how Meydan is coming along you can check out the progress here on the Meydan site. It doesn’t look like much now but should be a virtual Disneyland for the racing fan, except for the fact that you won’t be able to get a wager down in Sheik Mohammed’s [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Meydan’
February 2, 2008
It’s Like Disneyland In The Desert But All The Rides Are Broken
If you’d like to see how Meydan is coming along you can check out the progress here on the Meydan site. It doesn’t look like much now but should be a virtual Disneyland for the racing fan, except for the fact that you won’t be able to get a wager down in Sheik Mohammed’s [...]
October 19, 2007
Meydan: Proof Positive Sheik Mohammad Has Watched Star Wars One Too Many Times
Talk about over the top, check out this video depicting what Meydan will look like when it’s completed in about two years. I can’t believe they can build something of this scope in such a short time. First off the place looks like it takes up the whole country, the grandstand must have been [...]
July 23, 2007
In Dubai You Must Clock Out To Pee
The Burj Tower in Dubai became the world’s tallest building over the weekend, just another one of Sheik Mohammad’s many ambitious projects that in the past ten years has transformed his tiny desert state into an international hub and tourist playground.
The Burj Tower got me thinking about another of the sheik’s major projects and [...]
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 [...]
