Mastering the track - a jockey's perspective - video Dailymotion

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00:00Dubai World Cup winning jockey Fernando Hara wears an HD helmet cam to give you a captivating

00:09perspective of what it feels like riding on the challenging dirt track at Meydan Race

00:14Course in Dubai.

00:16The Meydan dirt track is known to favour the brave and Hara asserted that to win on this

00:21track you need a horse with good gate speed who can jump out of the gates and get into

00:26a good position.

00:27Otherwise you will compromise your chances if your horse cannot match the rivals for

00:32early speed.

00:33Hara, who won the 2007 Dubai World Cup aboard the Argentinian-bred Invasor on Ned del Sheba's

00:41dirt track, also highlighted the dreaded kickback where horses and jockeys have sand kicked

00:46in their faces.

00:47It's a daunting experience, says Hara, as this unique footage illustrates.

00:52I think for me the most important part in the race is the start, you know, with a good

00:57start I can go to plan A, what we would say in the distance, so what we plan with the

01:05trainer and the owner, you know, before the race and definitely it's more easier to go

01:12from there.

01:15Breaking bad, you know, you have to take your decision and definitely you can take

01:19a better view of the race first and then have a less feel of the pace of the race as well.

01:29Breaking good you can, you know, sense all that more easily.

01:33You've got a nice relaxed horse, you know, on the gate and usually they break okay.

01:37Most of the time they break okay, you know, unless they're kind of nervous inside and

01:42something like they take a bad step or something, they break slow.