UAE Derby Super Screener Recap

Photo: Dubai Racing Club/Neville Hopwood

The UAE Derby offers 100 Kentucky Derby 2015 points to the winner, but no winner of this race has been able to overcome the ship and the Derby trip to find victory on the First Saturday in May. Will 2015 be the year?

UAE Derby Recap

Mubtaahij did not disappoint as the odds-on favorite in the UAE Derby as he took it to a field of suspect rivals and soundly defeated those foes with an impressive open lengths victory. What I found most impressive was that he accelerated in the stretch to draw away without ever changing leads!

He finished the race in a throttled down 1:58 1/5 on the new dirt surface at Meydan (about 2 seconds slower than the time established at that distance in the Dubai World Cup run several races later in the day).

How does Mubtaahij compare to other UAE Derby winners? Get the whole story at SuperScreener.com!

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