The final race on Meydan's Super Saturday card, the 2410-metre $250,000 G2 Dubai City Of Gold features a full field of 14. Six of them hail from Godolphin, with G1 Coral-Eclipse S. hero Hawkbill (Kitten's Joy) bearing the honour of the blue cap. Rated 118, the 2016 English highweight saluted in the G3 Aston Park S. at Newbury last May, before a third in the G1 Investec Coronation Cup in June. Only sixth in the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud a month later, the chestnut was back on top in the G2 Princess of Wales's S. at headquarters later that month. He ended 2017 with a pair of runner-up performances, in the G1 Longines Grosser Preis von Berlin at Hoppegarten in August and when last seen, missed by a head in Woodbine's GI Northern Dancer Turf S. on Sept. 16.
MGSW Best Solution (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) is making his third start at the Carnival Saturday, and he most recently drew off to win by five lengths in a Meydan handicap on Feb. 15. Frontiersman (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), will grace the Carnival for the first time. The Listed Godolphin S. hero and Coronation Cup second warmed up with a third in a conditions event over the Wolverhampton synthetic on Jan. 15.
Called To The Bar (Ire) (Henrythenavigator) reappears after being shelved for just over nine months and is an intriguing prospect here. The G3 Prix du Lys hero was second in the GI Belmont Derby Invitational S. back on July 8. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohd Al Maktoum's GSW Earnshaw (Medaglia d'Oro) could also disrupt the Godolphin procession, and the 7-year-old gelding completed the trifecta over 2000 metres in the G3 Dubai Millennium S. locally on Feb. 22.
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