South American stars bought to race in Dubai

The growing internationalization of the sport of horse racing could not be better demonstrated than by the players involved in two separate deals to bring star Argentinean racehorses, Anaerobio and Paulinho, to Dubai in good time for them to acclimatize ahead of targets at the World Cup meeting in March next year.

With South America having upset the fixed odds by producing this year’s World Cup winner Gloria de Campeao and another recent World Cup winner Invasor, bloodstock agents, trainers and owners now see countries like Brazil and Argentina as potential harvesting grounds for high class racehorses that can be acquired at reasonable prices.

Asiatic Boy, another successful Argentine horse who won the UAE Derby, is the example being cited for the purchase by Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum of this year’s Group 1 Gran Premio Jockey Club winner Anaerobio, who will now join Dubai-based South African Mike de Kock and be prepared for a crack at some of the top prizes at the forthcoming festival meetings.

In October, Paulinho arrived in Dubai as the property of new owner Ruslan Bifov, a Russian multi-millionaire, having left Argentina unbeaten as a juvenile where his wins included the Group 1 Gran Premio Estrellas. Herman Brown, another Dubai-based South African trainer, has been given charge of the three-year-old colt who won has won his three career starts by an aggregate of 25 lengths.

In recent seasons horses have arrived for the Dubai World Cup meting and the Carnival fixtures that lead up to the main event, from all corners of the globe. Runners from the Far East are a regular sight, there have been Indian-trained winners, of course the major European racing nations send plenty of ammunition to try and pillage the top prizes, whilst challengers from the US and Australia (with Australia horse racing fans always keen to get involved) also join the party making the fixture a truly global affair.

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