Author Archives: Richard R. Gross

Timing is everything and with Super Saturday a week away, Godolphin put its best clockers in the post and came away with a royal blue flush—three wins in six Thoroughbred...

The image is seared in the minds of Thoroughbred racing fans. It's the end of the 1999 Belmont Stakes and as Charismatic's Triple Crown hopes fade to a third-place ending,...

This week's Dubai World Cup Carnival featured an unusual two meetings on Thursday and Saturday and more than one unusual finish. It's rare that winning three of six races can...

We all know change can be a good thing. That maxim was proved at the World Cup Carnival as Furia Cruzada changed countries for the fifth time, trainers for the eighth...

Blue was the color of the fourth meeting of the Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan Thursday as hometown equine empire Godolphin and its boys in the royal blue silks...

The Al Fahidi Fort is named after Dubai's oldest structure, built in 1787, and the winner of this year's 7-furlong Group 2 feature was 6-year-old Championship, oldest among the top...

Local favorite Reynaldothewizard proved there is still some magic left in his 11-year-old hooves as he poofed away his competitors to win his third consecutive 3/4-mile Dubawi Stakes trophy on the...

If "April is the cruelest month", as T.S. Eliot famously wrote, then January may be the coolest month for horse racing fans, and not just because of the plunging temperatures....