My race of the week is the AED 500,000 Listed Jebel Ali Mile. The Third Race on Friday is one of the season highlights at Jebel Ali the Mile has had many great winners over the years.
Last years’ Winner Jet Express comes back to defend his title. Although last year he arrived on a role for this race, having won the Jebel Ali Prep prior to victory here , this season he has not got his head in front yet. Gelarni Siddiqui, assistant trainer to Ali Rashid Al Raihe said “He is in great form and we are expecting a big run”. Jet Express is one of the most popular horses with the UAE and a repeat of last year’s win would spark rapturous celebrations from the crowd.
Otaared, who won the 2011 Jebel Ali Mile Prep, has to be well fancied to follow up on that performance. He comes in to the race in great form having been placed either first or second in his last four races and will definitely be on the premises. Trainer Dhruba Selvaratnam said of his previous run: “I was really pleased with that as he caught the pacemaker and he will come back with every chance in the mile”, and he added: “He is a very talented horse and one we have always really liked.”
Musabah Al Muhairi’s three runners are all big dangers. Snaafy looks to be the class horse in the race. Snaafy is ratef 115 some 8 pounds ahead of the next highest rated horse in Otaared, and as they are racing off level weights it should mean he should find all these rivals inferior but will the ratings tell the real tale.
It is encouraging to see that Carnival horses are very much part of this race and the fact Mike de Kock is running Wonder Lawn shows the race is seen to be out of the top drawer. When Wonder Lawn was fourth to Rock N Roll Ransom at the first Carnival meeting Kevin Shea said after: “if we had not had the traffic problems we would have been much closer”. As the son of Fort Wood was last turning in to the straight he did well to finish fourth. If he is handier ridden I see Wonder Lawn as a serious contender.
There are many other contenders in the race and it is always useful looking to see who the stable jockey rides when a trainer has multiple runners in a race. Richard Mullen choosing Escape Route for his employer Satish Seemar should be a good tip in itself.
For my Pick 6 I am going to select the number fourteen and go for Wonder Lawn who looked like a horse on the upgrade last time and if he can race more handily he is sure to be involved in the finish.
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