Up Yours With a Broomstick, Dubai

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


I know you don't like horse racing, but you kind of hate Dubai and would feel schadenfreude towards them if they screwed up, right? Perfect. Below is footage from their $6,000,000 ostentatious Dubai World Cup.

It's like their Kentucky Derby, but different. In the last decade or so, sheiks from Dubai have started buying up damn near all of the American stud horses (sounds funny, but in this instance I mean "stud" literally). They have made it their personal jihad to purchase nearly all the available quality horse stock and fly it back home to breed their own super horses. After doing so, they decided to make a spectacle of their riches and host a summit of racing every March, culminating the worlds richest race (by far) the Dubai World Cup, where the victor is awarded $6m. Ideally it was designed to be an embarrassment to their riches, where they would be flattered and humbled, maybe even embarrassed, by how amazingly their multi-million dollar horses ran.

Essentially, they buy the Ivan Dragos of the world, and we bring our Rocky's over and eat their lunch every damn year. Last year it was Curlin. This year was Well Armed who HUMILIATED the field by 14 lengths.

I luh dat. Here it is.