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Meydan Masters should put on a great show
Twelve jockeys who between them won the world’s greatest races in 2009 will provide a fitting climax to the Dubai International Racing Carnival when they compete in the Meydan Masters Challenge tonight (Friday, March 6)
American Kent Desormeaux, winner of the Belmont Stakes last year on Summer Bird, is relishing the challenge. He told Xpress last night: “If I were a racing fan I wouldn’t miss it because you can’t imagine what you are going to see.
“I’m going to be with these 11 other guys that are masters at finding the horse’s absolute maximum cruising speed so that they reach that point where [the horse] needs to be to run its best. They’re good at figuring that out. That’s why they’re here.
“The reality of that is it is going to be fun playing with the best of the best. The riders are going to have the horse at the quarter-pole all pretty much the same way. But when we let loose the object of the game is to get there first and we all do it in a very different way. So the fans should enjoy that.”
The horses for the four handicaps that make up the jockeys challenge are drawn by ballot, but riding a horse you may never have seen before is no disadvantage, according to Desormeaux. “It is normal. It is what we do every day. I ride nine horses a day and seven of them I’ve never met before.”
Desormeaux experienced Meydan for the first time yesterday, but already he wants more: “It’s awe inspiring, jaw-dropping to say the least. What’s more amazing is that it is here, because it was just 22 months ago that it was a model, and the structure is up and we get to play [tonight]. It’s just magical.”
Races one, two, four and five of the seven-race card tonight comprise the Meydan Masters.
The Meydan Masters jockeys are Mick Kinane, Christophe Lemaire, Ted Durcan, Jamie Spencer, Corey Brown, Ahmad Ajtebi, Frankie Dettori, Olivier Peslier, Ryan Moore, Richard Hills, Kent Desormeaux, Norihiro Yokoyama and Aaron Gryder. - Gulf News

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