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A record number of 19 American-based horses are beginning their journey to Dubai to compete at the world’s richest day of racing, the Dubai World Cup meeting, at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse March 25. This the largest contingent to come from America in the 10-year-history of the Dubai World Cup.

Among the raiding party is the William ‘Buff’ Bradley-trained Brass Hat, winner of his last three starts, including the Donn Handicap (gr. I).

Along with Brass Hat, the other runners in the US$6,000,000 Dubai World Cup (UAE- I), the world’s richest race, sponsored by Emirates, flying in from America will be the Jeremy Noseda-trained Wilko, winner of the 2004 Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I), Super Frolic, trained by Vladimir Cerin, Todd Pletcher’s Magna Graduate, and Choctaw Nation, who was third in this race a year ago.

Richard Mandella, winning trainer of the 2004 Dubai World Cup, is sending The Tin Man to challenge for the US$5,000,000 Dubai Duty Free (UAE-I), sponsored by Dubai Duty Free, over 1,777 metres on the turf. Fellow American challengers in the Dubai Duty Free, the second leg of the Asian Mile Challenge, will be last year’s Dubai Duty Free runner-up Whilly, from the Doug O’Neill stable, and Pletcher’s Chilean-bred Host.

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