Dubai Racing Carnival Week Eight Preview: Pat Comerford's top tips

Описание: We move onto week eight of the Dubai Racing Carnival and commentator Pat Comerford runs through the card with his race-by-race guide.

Dual South African Group 1 winner Quid Pro Quo is among the leading lights at Meydan’s bumper 10-race Dubai Racing Carnival meeting on Friday.

The four-year-old filly makes her local debut in the G2 Cape Verdi [sponsored by Azizi Developments], race seven, over 1600metres on turf.

Winner of the G1 Allan Robertson Championship and G1 Douglas Whyte Stakes for trainer Barend Botes, the four-year-old filly is now in the care of owners Team Valor and France-based trainer Jerome Reynier. She warmed up for this assignment by finishing tenth in the Listed Prix Miss Satamixa at Deauville on 13 December.

Quid Pro Quo’s five rivals include three-time winner Riyabovka for trainer Nicolas Caullery, who has been in the UAE since November but makes her Meydan debut this weekend.

Norwegian trainer Silja Storen has her first Meydan runner in Capitana Bling, winner of a Listed race at Bro Park, Sweden, in September.

Saeed bin Suroor, who has won this race five times, runs Dubai Treasure and Dubai Beach. Dubai Treasure finished eighth in the Listed Dubai Dash in December, while Dubai Beach was beaten a head by Molaqab over 1400metres on her course debut last week.

The main supporting race is the AED400,000 Cocoa Beach Stakes, race eight, for three-year-old fillies on the dirt. 15 line up, including Labwah, who beat several of these rivals in the Shahama Stakes a month ago.

The Emirati handler also runs debutante She’s Essential, a daughter of Essential Quality.

Eight-time UAE Champion Trainer Doug Watson runs an interesting local newcomer in Pretty And Famous, winner of one of her four starts at Rostov in Russia.

Horses from five different countries clash in the concluding Vazirabad Handicap, over 2410metres on turf.

UK-based Australian trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam has her first Dubai runners since 2023 and has a team of three, including Claymore who takes his chance here.

The seven-year-old was the winner of the local Group 1 Kinscsem Dij in Hungary in September and arrived in Dubai on Saturday.

Spain-based Venezuelan trainer Efrain Arguinzones has his first Dubai runner here with the nine-year-old Irish-bred Finely Tuned, a seven-time winner. The trainer issued a brief update, saying: “he has settled in very well. Overall, we are happy with the facilities.”

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