Horse Racing Book DUBAI MILLENNIUM Rachel Pagones 2007

DUBAI MILLENNIUM - A VISION REALISED A DREAM LOST
BY RACHEL PAGONES

Hardback with dust cover, 272 pages, colour  photographs

Excellent condition. Published by Highdown 2007

"Horses are blood and flesh, you know? You buy them young, you try to train them, you spend all your time with them, and then they're no good.  Or sometimes, a hero will come through"

So spoke Sheikh Mohammed a year before his prize racehorse DUBAI MILLENNIUM would capture the world's attention with a scintillating win in the globe's richest race, the Dubai World Cup.

Sheikh Mohammed had renamed an unraced colt called Yazeer as Dubai Millennium with the goal to win the Dubai World Cup before an international audience in the year 2000. This is the extraordinary story of how this unlikely vision came true with the colt emerging as Derby favourite. This would be the only defeat he suffered in his career and eventually he was described by the Sheikh as "the best we've ever had".

Just months after his World Cup win he suffered a fractured hind leg and was retired to stud. With the world at his feet as a potential champion stallion this dream was shattered when he succumbed to grass sickness after just one year at stud.

A fascinating story of racing at the very highest level.