All too soon, we’ve reached the pointy end of the UAE season. It’s far from over, as a three-way battle for the Trainers’ Championship will be played out over the final three meetings, but the big stuff is done. So, time for my unofficial end-of-season awards. Horse of the Year He didn’t win the Dubai World Cup, but Algiers is still the star of the season. Trained by Simon and
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UAE-based trainer Doug Watson stamped his name on the $1-million Godolphin Mile (G2) for the third time at Meydan Racecourse Saturday after Isolate did as his name suggested and kept himself ahead of the pack, going wire-to-wire under United States-based jockey Tyler Gaffalione.
If you thought Ryan Moore couldn’t leave a winning challenge any later than what he executed on Broome in the Dubai Gold Cup (G2) earlier on Saturday's Dubai World Cup card at Meydan, then the final lunge up the rail aboard Sibelius in the $2-million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) was even more of a heart-stopper as he denied last year’s winner Switzerland by a nose.