Colm O’Donoghue will take over from Greg Cheyne when last year’s Sun Met winner makes his Dubai debut in the Zabeel Mile at Meydan on Thursday.

Ridgemont racing manager Craig Carey said: “We felt that we should have an international jockey who knows the tracks out there and Colm has committed himself to the horse for the whole campaign.

“Brett Crawford flew out there last Monday and the horse is doing well but the word from Mike de Kock is that he will need the run on Thursday.”

O’Donoghue, who won the 2011 Irish Derby on Treasure Beach for Aidan O’Brien, won the UAE Derby on Daddy Long Legs at the following year’s Dubai Carnival and has also won big races in Britain, France, Canada and the USA.

Just Sensual, winner of the 2016 Cape Fillies Guineas for Joey Ramsden and Mayfair Speculators and second only to Carry On Alice in the South African Fillies Sprint, has gone into quarantine after being bought by an Australian-Japanese syndicate. She will go via Mauritius to Australia.

By Michael Clower

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