'He's been a great servant' - Broome pips Siskany to land Dubai Gold Cup in track record time

The two titans of racehorse ownership came to the fore on Dubai World Cup night as Coolmore's Broome got the better of Godolphin's Siskany when smashing the track record in the Group 2 Al Tayer Motors-backed Dubai Gold Cup.

Owned in partnership with Japanese owner Masaaki Matsushima, in whose white and silver colours he runs, Broome broke faster than can often be the case and settled in midfield under Ryan Moore, but improved through the pack in the home straight and slowly mowed down Siskany to win by a neck.

It was just a second try at two miles for the redoubtable campaigner, whose last three runs had come in America, Hong Kong and Qatar, but the Ballydoyle camp were confident he had adapted well to the environment on his maiden voyage in Dubai.

MV Magnier, representing the owners, said: "Aidan [O'Brien, trainer] was pretty confident with him coming here and he's danced every dance. He's been a great servant to us and we're lucky to have him."

Last year's Hardwicke Stakes winner now has options over further in the Cup races, a division his owners already appear to have a stranglehold on with star stayer Kyprios.

Magnier said: "We probably didn't expect him to get that trip quite that well but he's done it, so there's plenty of options for him now. We'll bring him back home and see. It's great for Mr Matsushima and everyone. They've been big supporters of ours over the last couple of years and it's great that they got a good result like that."

Meanwhile, O'Brien said:  "We were delighted with him. We always thought he would stay and looking at that it looks like he will stay further. He will probably go the Cup route and if everything goes well I can see him ending up in the Melbourne Cup. He looked very comfortable at the trip." 

Subjectivist, the Gold Cup winner who blew his rivals away in the race in 2021, ran much better than on his reappearance from a tendon injury in third.

Sheikha shock

Sheikha Hissa may have come to expect success with her great champion Baaeed, but the 33-1 success of Danyah caught her off guard in the Al Quoz Sprint.

A talented handicapper over seven furlongs and a mile for Owen Burrows in Britain, the gelding relished the drop back to six furlongs on just his fifth start for local trainer Musabbeh Al Mheiri and wrestled past Australia's The Astrologist to win by a head under Dane O'Neill.

"I was very surprised, I think the camera caught us being very surprised!" Sheikha Hissa said. "We've never run at this distance, so we didn't know what to expect, but we wanted to test his limits to see how it was and Dane gave him a great ride.

"I'm here with my family and we always love to come to the Dubai World Cup. We didn't have a winner last year but we had one on Super Saturday. One is more than enough!"

The second-placed horse will now transfer to Marco Botti's Newmarket yard to be trained for the Platinum Jubilee at Royal Ascot.

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