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Mastering the track - a jockey's perspective
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2/12/2025
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Dubai World Cup winning jockey Fernando Hara wears an HD helmet cam to give you a captivating
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perspective of what it feels like riding on the challenging dirt track at Meydan Race
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Course in Dubai.
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The Meydan dirt track is known to favour the brave and Hara asserted that to win on this
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track you need a horse with good gate speed who can jump out of the gates and get into
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a good position.
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Otherwise you will compromise your chances if your horse cannot match the rivals for
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early speed.
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Hara, who won the 2007 Dubai World Cup aboard the Argentinian-bred Invasor on Ned del Sheba's
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dirt track, also highlighted the dreaded kickback where horses and jockeys have sand kicked
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in their faces.
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It's a daunting experience, says Hara, as this unique footage illustrates.
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I think for me the most important part in the race is the start, you know, with a good
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start I can go to plan A, what we would say in the distance, so what we plan with the
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trainer and the owner, you know, before the race and definitely it's more easier to go
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from there.
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Breaking bad, you know, you have to take your decision and definitely you can take
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a better view of the race first and then have a less feel of the pace of the race as well.
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Breaking good you can, you know, sense all that more easily.
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You've got a nice relaxed horse, you know, on the gate and usually they break okay.
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Most of the time they break okay, you know, unless they're kind of nervous inside and
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something like they take a bad step or something, they break slow.
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