DUBAI WORLD CUP
Arrogate now third-highest earner in racing
The winner’s cheque in the United Arab Emirates took the four-year-old’s lifetime earnings to more than $17m
Arrogate’s sensational victory in the $10m Dubai World Cup has taken him into third place in earnings in the history of thoroughbred racing. The winner’s cheque in the United Arab Emirates took the four-year-old’s lifetime earnings to more than $17m and he is now the highest-earning North American-bred thoroughbred. Worldwide, he is in third place behind Orfevre ($19m) and Gentildonna ($18.4m). After Arrogate fluffed the start of Saturday’s night race, giving his rivals a valuable start, bookies must have felt they had a chance of beating the 1-3 favourite. That was certainly the belief of the horse’s trainer, Bob Baffert, who admitted Arrogate looked an unlikely winner halfway through the race at the Meydan track. "Mike [jockey, Mike Smith] did a great job, he didn’t panic. When he turned for home, I said: ‘If he wins from there he’s the greatest since Secretariat’," Baffert said after the race. Arrogate races in the colours of Juddmonte Farms, who also own the unbeaten Frankel. To...
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