Dubai Carnival Contest
 

might as well starting this Thursday and culminating on the richest day in horse racing on 29th March.

prizes TBA...

Ill make this as easy as possible. One selection per race and an alternate.


1 euro/dollar/pound/dirham on each selection and the person with the highest return over the period wins.

Good Luck!

EDIT: all returns settled at UK Industry Odds and only the thoroughbred races count!!

Good idea.

Would love to be able to compete for all of it, but I'm not going to be able to near a computer much on a Thursday within a couple of weeks.

I will join in for the time I'm around, if that's okay. Hopefully I can manage a few weeks selections, even it it means posting them as soon as the final decs come out for the following thursday. Then I should be okay to post selections for world cup night.

Whew!

Okay I'm gonna edit in the rest.....

Opening Day...

R2 - Jet Past (alt. Many Colours)
R3 - Badaria (alt. Fiesta Lady)
R4 - Jonquil (alt. Familiar Territory)
R5 - Rosberg (alt. Gharir)
R6 - Imperialista (two years in a row, baby!), (alt. Boston Lodge)
R7 - King Jock (alt. Sea Hunter)

Oh... deadline time, Brock?

You can't select horses after the race :p

A cut off time though! We need to have one... no?

Good old King Jock... did you see there's a Queen Jock entered in the Cocoa Beach race (R3?).:D

See..... I've forgiven him for trouncing my boy.

deadline before first race i suppose...

I'm guessing selections have to be in anytime before the start of the meeting, but Brock better make up the rules.

Yeah, Queen and King Jock. I will never forget that day when he beat Ace. Maybe I can find a replay somewhere :eek:

Ummm, he beat him twice... President's Cup and the National Day Cup or something like that.

Replays on the ERA site.

Personally I choose to remember Ace-ie as i saw him in person, with Kieren up, coming in 2nd when it mattered. :) :cool:

Oh yeah, I forgot you were there that day. I bet him at Belmont, but only for him to win. Never mind, he gave me a cracking run for my money.

He was a character, that little fella.

Crap, I just posted them here... :)

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19371

Right, here goes nothing.

Race 1 (first thoroughbred race)
Selection: Olympic City, Alt: Classy-lady

Race 2
(three very interesting Godolphin horses, with Fiesta Lady having won the Argentinian Oaks on her last start, but 7furlongs might be on the sharp side, and she has to give away 5lbs+ to her rivals.)

Selection: Cocoa Beach, Alt: Olympic Glory

Race 3
Selection: Elmustanser, Alt: Consular

Race 4
Selection: Rosberg, Alt: Yasoodd

Race 5
Selection: Boston Lodge, Alt: Gloria De Campeao

Race 6
Selection: Tapor, Alt: Sea Hunter


Good luck, everyone

EDIT: Just had to edit the selections now that they will most likely run the turf races on the dirt.

Turf races abandoned

Now they are saying they will run the turf races on the main dirt track IF there is enough interest from trainers tomorrow.

How much is enough interest? How long is a piece of string?

betting on all the races on the card?

1/17

2nd) Many Colours # 1
3rd) Fiesta Lady #1
4th) Familiar Territory #4
5th) Third Set #10
6th) Jack Sullivan #16
7th) Almuraad #10

No decision yet.....

From our friends at the ERA...

The opening meeting of the Dubai International Racing Carnival at Nad Al Sheba will go ahead tomorrow and be run exclusively on the dirt.

Following the extremely wet weather, the three races scheduled to be run on the turf will not be run on that surface.
However, depending on the level of interest from the trainers who have horses entered in those races, they could be switched to the dirt track, which would mean the 1,777m race would be run over 1800m, otherwise the distances would remain the same.

Dubai Racing Club CEO Frank Gabriel Jr said: “The dirt course has been sealed the last three days, and there will be no training on it tomorrow morning, with the goal that we can offer a fast track.

“Everyone has had to struggle with this freakish weather over the last few days, so in that respect, we are delighted that we are still able to stage the feature races – both versions of the Maktoum Challenge.

“We will see what the response is to moving the three turf races to dirt, and make a decision on the final make-up of the card tomorrow morning.”

http://www.churchilldowns.com/news/r...01-17-2008.pdf

FYI: PP's available for the whole WC at Churchill's site..

races 2-7 from steve's link http://www.churchilldowns.com/news/r...01-17-2008.pdf

I believe that the first race on the card is for arabian horses..

R2) Many Colors Alt:Tonic Star
R3) Fiesta Lady Alt:Badaria
R4)Ramaad Alt:Fammliar Territory
R5)Third Set Alt: Yasoodd
R6)Jack Sullivan Alt:Imperalista
R7)Brunel Alt:Topor

a bit messy today with Dubai becoming America and putting the turf races onto dirt - it will makes for some interesting races. Betting is a minefield today and I wouldnt be taking short prices on anything..

R2 Classy Lady alt Olympic City
R3 Olympic Glory alt Cocoa Beach
R4 Naipe Marcado alt Jonquil
R5 Rosberg alt Arabian Prince
R6 Boston Lodge alt Etihaad
R7 Almuraad alt Topor

Good Luck today.

Lets hope Rosberg can do the business today. I've made him my NAP :eek:

Like your selections. Classy Lady is still about 9/2, I think that is a great bet. I also like the two Olympic horses from Brazil.

You have Rosberg, too :eek:

Hope there is time yet!

2nd) Olympic City
3rd) Cocoa Beach
4th) Naipe Marcado
5th) Rosberg
6th) Gloria de Campeao
7th) King Jock

Forgot the alternates!

2nd) Many Colours
3rd) Fiesta Lady
4th) Remaad
5th) Third Set
6th) Jack Sullivan
7th) Golden Arrow

By the way....brazilian jockey J. Moreira (aka "Fatasma" or in english Phantom)...is superb!

He'll be a star.

Maybe not today but he had a great win earlier at NAS.

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/sho...erg#post285968

Yeah, but he disappointed after that win. The main reason I picked him today is because he has dirt form.

Now looking at the dirt, it doesn't look sloppy at all.


On another point, in the contest I have selected to seconds so far :(

Well some people managed to show profits here and financially and so well done to them.

1= Hickory Hill Hoff +1.63
1= CowgirlinTexas +1.63 (both managed to pick the 2 Godolphin winners!)

3 Merasmag -3 (just picked the dirt races!)

4=Fmc123412 -6
4=My Miss Storm Cat -6
4=NoChanceToDance -6
4=BrockGuy -6

If there are any queries with the scores let me know. Many Colours' price was 9/4 (quite generous in the end!) and Fiesta Lady was 11/8

It was a very, very good day! :)

JS? I presume is Jack Sullivan.. Unfortunately he was out of the $$ today. I picked him as well.

How about State Shinto still running at 12! I think I liked him in the 1999 Carnival

24th January selections.

Race 1,
Stetchworth Prince. Alt, Santiago Atitlan

Race 2,
Something. Alt, San Domenico

Race 3,
Aquino. Alt, Bain Douche

Race 4,
Mulaqat. Alt, Longville

Race 5,
Divine Jury. Alt, Traffic Guard

Race 6,
Diabolical. Alt, Terrific Challenge

Race 7,
Teslin. Alt, European Dream

Day 2 of Carnival

Race 1 - Santiago Atitlan alt T-Bird
Race 2 - Mariol alt Sir Edwin Landseer
Race 3 - Aquino (the New Invasor?!) alt Honour Devil
Race 4 - Lake Poet alt Longville
Race 5 - Traffic Guard alt Mandobi
Race 6 - Salaam Dubai alt Asiatic Boy
Race 7 - Hazeymm alt Etihaad

Good Luck all. Race 3 looks a belter of a race with so many potential stars in it and it'll be good to see Asiatic Boy back on dirt.

Race three does look like a cracker.

Have you seen the comments Doug Watson has made on the Racing Post about Aquino? wow!

yeah could be special. shame ill be in work for it tomorrow..