Rowan Anderson |
Less than a week out from Super Saturday and with a month until Dubai World Cup Night the ratings mean more and more.
Races have required ratings to take part so the best from around the world leave it all on the track to get a boost in their rating so they can continue to showcase their potent ability.
After the eighth fixture of the Carnival on Friday night, there were seven revisions to ratings.
The Frankel x Sand Vixen filly has made it two straight and even more impressively two back-to-back Group Two victories, coming in the Cape Verdi at the start of February before winning the Balanchine Stakes last week by 4.5 lengths. Trained by Charlie Appleby she has four further victories in the UK including in Grade One and Listed class.
Trainer Doug O’Neill has shown three times this season the insane ability to bring a horse from his native USA and see them win in their UAE debut, as was seen with Tall Boy last month and with Ah Jeez last week.
With William Buick onboard this son of Mendelssohn stormed home to win by 2.25 lengths and will now build on this performance.
Exclusively raced in the UAE this Doug Watson gelding has three wins from six starts. Having broken his maiden in December 2022 by 6.25 lengths he put in a similar performance last week winning by 5.5 lengths.
Winning by a neck over Meishar last week this Ali Al Badwawi trained gelding showed he could still get it done even at nine years of age. Having not won since November last year he showed the ability once again
This Saeed bin Suroor trained filly made it two on the bounce and her last win was spectacular putting close to nine on the rest of the field.
That makes it two wins from two runs in Meydan and having captured a Group Two in Newmarket and being only three years of age expect her to be winning a lot more in the future, especially given her pedigree being by Exceed and Excel.
Two straight victories and having had five career starts all coming at Meydan. This Gun Runner colt trained by Fawzi Nass won last start by a neck over One Nation.
Trained by Mussabeh Al Mheiri this Street Boss colt has now won four from 12 starts. His last start win was by 1.25 lengths over On The Warpath.