2014 Dubai World Cup

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19th Dubai World Cup
Dubai World Cup
Racing silks of Godolphin.svg
LocationMeydan
Date29 March 2014
Winning horse African Story (GB)
Jockey Silvestre de Sousa
Trainer Saeed bin Suroor (GB/UAE)
Owner Godolphin
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The 2014 Dubai World Cup was a horse race held at Meydan Racecourse on Saturday 29 March 2014. It was the 19th running of the Dubai World Cup.

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The winner was Godolphin's African Story, a seven-year-old chestnut gelding trained in Dubai by Saeed bin Suroor and ridden by Silvestre de Sousa. African Story's victory was the first in the race for his jockey, the sixth for his trainer and the fifth for his owners.

African Story had begun his racing career in France before being sent to race in Dubai and had won four of his eight races on the synthetic Tapeta surface at Meydan. He had also finished behind Animal Kingdom in the 2013 running of the Dubai World Cup. For the 2014 running of the race he started at odds of 12/1 and won by two and three quarter lengths from the British-trained Mukhadram with Cat O'Mountain (also running for Godolphin) four and a quarter lengths back in third. The 3/1 favourite Military Attack finished tenth of the sixteen runners. [1] [2]

Race details

Full result

Pos.Marg.Horse (bred)AgeJockeyTrainer (Country)Odds
1 African Story (GB)7 Silvestre de Sousa Saeed bin Suroor (GB/UAE)12/1
2 Mukhadram (GB)5 Paul Hanagan William Haggas (GB)14/1
3Cat O'Mountain (USA)4 Mickael Barzalona Charlie Appleby (GB/UAE)25/1
4¾Side Glance (GB)7 Jamie Spencer Andrew Balding (GB)33/1
5hd Akeed Mofeed (GB)5 Douglas Whyte Richard Gibson (HK)8/1
6nse Red Cadeaux (GB)8 Gerald Mosse Ed Dunlop (GB)16/1
7Sanshaawes (SAF)5 Christophe Soumillon Mike de Kock (SAF)12/1
8Vancouverite (GB)4 William Buick Charlie Appleby (GB/UAE)16/1
9nk Prince Bishop (IRE)7 Kieren Fallon Saeed bin Suroor (GB/UAE)8/1
10 Military Attack (IRE)6Joao Moreira John Moore (HK)3/1 fav
112Belshazzar (JPN)6 Christophe Lemaire Kunihide Matsuda (JPN)16/1
12 Ron The Greek (USA)6 Jose Lezcano N. Bachalard (KSA)25/1
13hd Ruler of the World (IRE)4 Joseph O'Brien Aidan O'Brien (IRE)6/1
14½ Hillstar (GB)4 Ryan Moore Michael Stoute (GB)14/1
15Surfer (USA)5Richard MullenSatish Seemar (UAE)40/1
16 Hokko Tarumae (JPN)5Hideaki MiyukiKatsuichi Nishiura (JPN)16/1

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, African Story

References

  1. "Dubai World Cup result". Racing Post. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-02.
  2. "African Story springs surprise to win Dubai World Cup for Godolphin". Guardian. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.