Off the wire
• UN chief to help Iraq overcome financial crisis, fight IS  • Feature: Fears and tears grip Yemenis amid airstrikes and conflicts  • Longest runway fashion show returns to Singapore's iconic Orchard Road  • News Analysis: New Slovak gov't to face challenges in health care, education sectors  • Feature: Forest restoration scales up in Ghana  • (Recast)Iranian president offers help to Pakistan in energy sector during visit  • Commentary: No need to panic, but every reason to improve China's vaccination system  • Iranian president offers help to Pakistan in energy sector during visit  • Grenade blast injures 4 soldiers in Burundi's capital  • NW China cargo train connects with Kazakhstan  
You are here: 　 Home

Horse Lani wins 1,900m race at Dubai World Cup

Xinhua, March 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

United States colt Lani, owned by Japan's Ms. Yoko Maeda, won the 1,900m race of the annual Dubai World Cup here on Saturday in 1 minute and 58.41 seconds, cashing in 1.2 million U.S. dollars prize money.

The three-year-old Lani won the UAE derby on dirt in a dramatic head on head finishing before Polar River from the United States and Japan's Yu Change. The Maeda team cashed in 1.2 million dollars prize money.

"Lani has plenty of scope and made it at a tight finish that is why we feel specially honoured to win here at the Dubai World Cup," said Lani's trainer Mikio Matsunaga. Enditem