{"id":63710,"date":"2025-01-25T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=63710"},"modified":"2025-01-25T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T09:16:07","slug":"mohammed-bin-rashid-attends-fashion-friday-at-meydan-racecourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/mohammed-bin-rashid-attends-fashion-friday-at-meydan-racecourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Bin Rashid Attends \u2018Fashion Friday\u2019 At Meydan Racecourse"},"content":{"rendered":"

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai<\/a>, today attended the prestigious \u2018Fashion Friday\u2019 event at the Meydan Racecourse.<\/p>\n

The event is a key highlight of the Dubai Racing Carnival and a standout in the region\u2019s horse racing calendar, renowned for its internationally acclaimed high-calibre races.<\/p>\n

The evening featured the participation of an elite lineup of the world\u2019s finest horses preparing for the 29th edition of the Dubai World Cup, scheduled for 5 April 2025.<\/p>\n

The event\u2019s nine races, classified across various group categories, brought together 99 horses competing for a total prize pool of AED10.53 million.<\/p>\n

The centrepiece of the evening was the Group 1 Al Maktoum Challenge, the sixth race of the programme. It serves as a key preparatory race for the Dubai World Cup, covering a distance of 2,000 metres on the dirt track with prize money of AED3.68 million. Among the competitors was the defending champion, Kabirkhan.<\/p>\n

Another highlight was the Group 1 Jebel Hatta, the seventh race of the evening, which is a key lead-up to the Dubai Turf. The race, contested over 1,800 metres on the turf, had a total prize pool of AED1.85 million.<\/p>\n

The evening also included races from the Group 2 and Group 3 categories, such as the Al Fahidi Fort over 1,400 metres, the Blue Point Sprint, and the Group 3 Firebreak Stakes, which featured the 2024 Dubai World Cup winner, Laurel River, as part of his preparations for another attempt at the prestigious title. Additional races included the UAE<\/a> 2000 Guineas for three-year-olds.<\/p>\n

The evening also featured standout races such as the Group 3 Al Shindagha Sprint over 1,200 metres and the Al Khail Trophy, run over an extended distance of 2,810 metres.<\/p>\n

The programme opened with Al Maktoum Challenge for Purebred Arabian horses, a Group 2 race that set the stage for an exceptional night of competition.<\/p>\n

Since its launch in 2024, \u2018Fashion Friday\u2019 has gained remarkable recognition, attracting some of the best international horses and reinforcing Dubai\u2019s position as a global centre for horse training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, today attended the prestigious \u2018Fashion Friday\u2019 event at the Meydan Racecourse. The event is a key highlight of the Dubai Racing Carnival and a standout in the region\u2019s horse racing calendar, renowned for its internationally acclaimed high-calibre races. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63712,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63710\/revisions\/63712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}