Dubai Racing Carnival

A trio of new memberships offering enhanced access to the horseracing action at Meydan Racecourse for the 2024-2025 Dubai Racing Carnival, were announced by the Dubai Racing Club (DRC) on Monday. The Dubai Racing Carnival begins on Friday, Nov. 8. The Dubai Racing Club membership gives patrons access to the Parade Ring Lounge for all 16 Dubai Racing Carnival meetings, as well as a range of exclusive benefits. Rewards include complimentary food and house beverages, 10 entries to the DRC draw, valet parking and invitation to the Dubai World Cup...

Dubai World Cup night will be held on Saturday, Apr. 5, the finale of an expanded 16-week Dubai Racing Carnival, the Dubai Racing Club (DRC) announced on Friday. The DWC will be held a week later than previously as a culmination of a week of Eid Al Fitr celebrations. The desert stand will begin at Meydan Racecourse on Friday, Nov. 8, with Festive Friday earmarked for Dec. 20 with the running of AED1-million G2 Maktoum Mile. Three other feature race days will be held throughout the Dubai Racing Carnival: Fashion...

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- The final day of the Keeneland September Sale is one where you blink and you miss it. It's a leaner session to begin with numbers-wise and the action is fast....as in, lightning fast. It's a real meat-and-potatoes sort of way to wrap up two exhausting weeks of trade. But, on rare occasions, there are diamonds in the rough to be found. Just ask Nadir Khassanov and while you're at it, talk to the people at Mulholland Springs. On Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, Khassanov, a bloodstock...

Stabling for runners in the International Quarantine Stables traveling from overseas for the upcoming season of the Dubai Racing Carnival will be free, the Dubai Racing Club announced on Tuesday. The season kicks off on Friday, Nov. 10, with the first of 14 meetings at Meydan Racecourse. Further incentives, including travel, will be decided by a special committee on a horse-by-horse basis. Stable staff staying in the quarantine facilities can do so for a fee of AED1000 per month (US$272). These incentives are in addition to the new Dubai World...

The Dubai Racing Club (DRC) on Sunday announced a new structure for the 2023-24 racing season at Meydan, renaming the entire event from December through March as the Dubai Racing Carnival and boosting purses by AED11 million, a 27% increase over last season. The season will offer three feature race nights starting in December (AED4.7 million), then January (AED10 million), and Super Saturday in March (AED 10million), which brings the total purses for the three meetings to AED24.7 million. The minimum purse for non-stakes races is AED165,000, which is back...

Group 1 winner Lord North (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) will step forward in the G1 Dubai Turf over 1800 metres on Mar. 27, Racing Post reported on Monday. Trainer John Gosden accepted an invitation for the race for the Sheikh Zayed bin Mohammed Racing colourbearer. A winner of the G1 Prince Of Wales's S. last June, the bay was third in the G1 Juddmonte Internatioanl S. a month later. Unplaced in the G1 QIPCO Champion S. on Oct. 17, he was a solid fourth in the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Turf...