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Exciting Details of the Godolphin Mile & Golden Shaheen
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4/4/2025
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00:00
This is the Godolphin Mile.
00:01
It's a group two race.
00:03
A million dollars up for grabs.
00:05
They will travel a mile.
00:06
We've seen the number one, Kyle Ostro.
00:09
We've seen the number five, Little Vic,
00:11
run out here in the U.S.
00:12
Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa.
00:15
Shout out Milo.
00:15
I hope he heard me say that one.
00:17
My son, he's gonna love that one
00:18
because he's a big Lion King fan.
00:20
But Raging Torrent is one of the major players in there.
00:23
He won the grade one Malibu for trainer Doug O'Neill,
00:26
and they've been pointing to this race for a while.
00:29
He's really good at seven furlongs, Alexa,
00:31
and the one turn mile.
00:33
So he's going to be one of the major players.
00:36
We even know Steel Sunshine.
00:37
He's been pretty successful down at Gulfstream Park.
00:40
He won the Gulfstream Park Mile, I believe, a year ago.
00:42
So a lot of U.S. faces in this race.
00:46
Yeah, there are.
00:47
And I mean, there's a lot of U.S. faces,
00:49
I feel like, in all of these races.
00:50
The next one we're gonna preview is race six,
00:53
actually, the Golden Shaheen.
00:55
It's another, it's a sprint, six furlongs,
00:57
and they're going for $2 million on the line for it.
01:00
And the favorite, also coming from the U.S.,
01:03
is the number nine Straight No Chaser,
01:06
who's, you know, my racehorse horse,
01:09
which is one of the, not one of,
01:11
it is the largest ownership group, probably, in the world,
01:15
who won the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Del Mar this year,
01:18
and then-
01:19
So think about how the Green Bay Packers ownership is,
01:21
where everybody, like, owns a little bit,
01:23
and they all put in.
01:24
That's basically what my racehorse is.
01:26
You can all put in, like, a little bit of money,
01:29
and be part of this huge team that owns horses together.
01:32
Yeah, like, a couple bucks,
01:33
and you get a tiny piece of, you know,
01:35
maybe the Derby winner, which is happening, so.
01:38
But, you know, he won at Mainan in February,
01:42
so he's already taken it to the track
01:43
and collected over $2 million.
01:45
So I think he does have a leg up
01:46
on some of these other shippers in here,
01:47
being really comfortable.
01:50
Couple other ones to mention,
01:51
the number 10 Super Chow horse I've won with before,
01:55
on Preakness Day last year.
01:57
Kind of had a rough rest of the year,
01:59
not finding the winner's circle again,
02:00
until last out in the stakes at Goldstream.
02:02
So I think he's an interesting long shot
02:05
to have on your radar at plus 1,400.
02:08
And then the other favorite to mention here
02:10
is going to be the 11 Tuhs, or Twos,
02:13
who's two-to-one odds, and is a local choice.
02:17
So they bought this horse for $7,000,
02:21
and he's amassed over $2 million in earnings.
02:23
So I always just love those stories as an owner
02:27
when you really hit the jackpot.
02:29
But coming off five straight wins,
02:31
all at this track, already beat a number of horses
02:33
in the field that he'll be facing today.
02:35
So I think those are some of the major contenders
02:37
in race six.
02:38
Yeah, he's last year's winner,
02:39
and he has not lost a race since winning last year.
02:42
We can move to the seventh race,
02:44
which is the Dubai Turf.
02:46
So you think about this day,
02:48
which is Dubai World Cup night,
02:49
it's like a track meet.
02:50
And you'll go from horses in each division,
02:53
to sprinters, and then you'll go to horses
02:55
going longer on the grass.
02:56
In the Dubai Turf, they run for $5 million,
03:00
the number two-ranked horse in the world,
03:02
Romantic Warrior.
03:04
He almost beat Forever Young in the Saudi Cup,
03:07
and that was his first start on the dirt.
03:09
But now he's back on the turf
03:10
where he's even better, Alexa.
03:12
So one of the top horses in the world
03:15
will be running Romantic Warrior in race seven
03:18
on Dubai World Cup night.
03:19
I'm not gonna talk about horses
03:21
that I think could beat him,
03:22
because I think if he shows up with his best effort,
03:24
I don't think they can beat him in that race.
03:26
He's been incredible.
03:28
Just to give you an idea
03:29
of how much money he's earned in his career,
03:31
$26 million in earnings so far in his career.
03:37
So what about the Shima Classic
03:40
where they're running for $6 million?
03:42
That's gonna be race number eight, the Shima Classic.
03:46
They'll go a mile and a half there.
03:47
Yeah, and we mentioned earlier,
03:49
the World Cup's 12 million.
03:50
I mean, there's so much money on the line tomorrow.
03:53
But yes, in the Shima Classic,
03:55
I think the main one to mention
03:57
is the number four, Rebels Romance,
03:58
who you may remember from last year's Breeders' Cup,
04:02
when he won the Breeders' Cup turf by a neck.
04:04
Since then, he's won another great one in Qatar,
04:06
and he's the defending champion for this race.
04:08
So he's quite the world traveler.
04:10
He's won stakes in Qatar, the US,
04:12
Great Britain, Dubai, Hong Kong, Germany.
04:14
I mean, he's won everywhere.
04:16
Just total global domination,
04:18
over 12 million in earnings,
04:20
trained by Charles Appelbein, owned by Godolphin,
04:22
which is winning connections for this race.
04:24
They've won three out of the last six years,
04:27
including him winning last year.
04:28
So, I mean, he's...
04:31
I'm not gonna talk about anybody else either
04:32
because I really think he's the one to win this race.
04:36
So he was the first horse to win the Breeders' Cup turf
04:38
in non-consecutive years last November.
04:42
And he can now be the first repeat winner
04:45
of the Shima Classic,
04:46
which was first run back in 1998.
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