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Miesque’s Approval may be sold after Dubai race
Miesque’s Approval, who earned championship honors as the best male turf horse in America last year after winning the Breeders’ Cup Mile (Gr.1), is on target for the Dubai Duty Free (Gr.1), although subsequent plans for the eight-year-old horse are uncertain.
John Rasmussen, general manager of Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Stud in Ocala, Florida, which bred and races Miesque’s Approval, said that despite speculation the horse would go on to race in the Champions Mile (Gr.1) on April 29 at Hong Kong’s Sha Tin Racecourse, there are no firm plans beyond the Dubai Duty Free.
“We take it one race at a time,” Rasmussen said. “We may retire him if there is some interest in buying him as a stallion.”
Current plans call for Miesque’s Approval, an earner of US$2,648,879, to race in the Live Oak colors in Dubai.
Mrs Weber is expected to attend the Dubai World Cup (Gr.1) program to watch Miesque’s Approval compete in the Dubai Duty Free, which, along with the Champions Mile, is part of the four-race Asian Mile Challenge series.
Rasmussen said that even if Miesque’s Approval is retired following the Dubai Duty Free, it seems unlikely that he will stand at stud in the United States, with chances far greater that he “will stand somewhere overseas.”
Miesque’s Approval is scheduled to breeze for trainer Marty Wolfson at Calder Race Course on Sunday morning, eight days prior to being shipped to Dubai.
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Premium Tap, winner of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup (King’s Cup) in his first start for Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and his sons, is set to work this weekend in Saudi Arabia, American-based trainer John Kimmel indicated.
Both Kimmel and jockey Kent Desormeaux plan to fly back to Saudi Arabia for the five-year-old Pleasant Tap horse’s final major Dubai World Cup (Gr.1) workout, which is slated for March 18.
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