These were both the Group 3 Al Shindagha Sprint and the Group 3 Mahab Al
Shimaal and with the help of Pat Dobbs, Watson really seems to have got a great tune out of him.
Dubai There were punting pointers aplenty at Meydan on Super Saturday, the big trials day before the Dubai World Cup card on March 30, and here are a few of the things we learned Drafted and Comicas are Golden Shaheen contenders On first viewing the Mahab Al
Shimaal didn't look much of a Golden Shaheen trial in a bunched finish.
Drafted won the Group 3 Mahab Al
Shimaal, a prep for the Dubai Golden Shaheen, while Muntazah was triumphant, winning by 10 lengths in the Group 3 Burj Nahaar, a rehearsal for the Godolphin Mile.
Jordan Sport won the Mahab Al
Shimaal, the prep race for the Dubai Golden Shaheen sprint, in record time by leading on the inside, while Kimbear also won the Burj Nahaar, a springboard to the Godolphin Mile, with a cosy inside post position.
Al-Tayeb Salih's best known and most translated work, Season of Migration to the North, (Mawsim al-Hijra ila
Shimaal) was acclaimed as "the most important Arabic novel of the 20th century" in 2001 by the Damascus-based Arab Literary Academy.
"The Dubai World Cup is very much the plan, but we might just look at the Mahab
Shimaal with him over the same distance on Super Thursday for him next."
Ali Rashid Al Raihe's Tropical Star was another horse to record a second win in a week when landing the six-furlong Mahab Al
Shimaal in good fashion under Royston Ffrench.
And he rides the Australian-trained Flight Pattern in the six-furlong Mahae Al
Shimaal.
Half an hour earlier,
Shimaal can take advantage of a big drop in class to land the Lazard Private Clients Maiden Fillies Stakes for Godolphin.
Drafted gets job done Tato Key, representing Ireland and David Marnane, was a close third in the opening Group Mahab Al
Shimaal over 6f on dirt.
Reigning UAE champion trainer Doug Watson was not to be denied his share of the spotlight with a pair of victories, courtesy Drafted in the Mahab Al
Shimaal Sponsored By Emirates Skywards and Muntazah in the Burj Nahaar Sponsored By Emirates Holidays, both Group 3 races.
Mahab Al
Shimaal Sponsored By Emirates Skywards, TB, Group 3 1200M(a6F), Dirt $350,000, 4 p.m