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THIS HORSE WAS KING OF DUBAI

Graham Buddry remembers Sheikh Mohammed’s great racehorse Dubai Millennium

YESTERDAY’S HEROES
Despite the racehorse being able to trace its ancestry back to the Middle Eastern roots of the three foundation stallions, the Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian and Godolphin Arabian, Arab owners were non-existent in English racing for centuries. It was the very early years of the 20th century that Aga Khan III first became interested in English racing and his descendants have carried on that connection to the present day.
Many years later Flat racing in Britain changed forever as Arab inter...

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