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Dubai Raises Prize Money for World's Richest Horse-Racing Day
Dubai Raises Prize Money for World's Richest Horse-Racing Day
25 Jul 2018, 07:24 PM IST
(Bloomberg) -- Prize money at the world’s richest day for thoroughbred racing is getting a boost.
The winner and runners-up in the Dubai World Cup will take away $12 million next March, up from $10 million this year. Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum increased the total prize money awarded at all the day’s races to $35 million from $30 million.
This year’s Dubai World Cup, a race which lures the world’s best horses, was won in an upset by Sheikh Mohammed’s very own Thunder Snow.
To contact the reporter on this story: Claudia Maedler in Dubai at cmaedler@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: David Papadopoulos at papadopoulos@bloomberg.net
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