If there is one race that competes with the Dubai World Cup in the popularity race each year since 1996, and has the potential to do so again at next Saturday’s much-anticipated Dubai World Cup meeting, it’s the Dubai Golden Shaheen. The race is heady stuff and gives the winner, horse, jockey, trainer, owner bragging rights as the world’s fastest horse on dirt, for a whole calendar year.
American-trained horses have a solid record in the event, which is run over 1,200 metres and one turn, at Meydan, winning the race no less than 12 times - including most recently at the 2019 renewal which was won by the speedball X Y Jet. Despite the track record this year’s spectacle will be headlined by 4 strong Japanese contenders.
