Dubai Future Champions Festival

Unbeaten Dewhurst winners are common, but unbeaten Dewhurst winners who have already won a July Stakes, Vintage Stakes and National Stakes are extremely rare and Zavateri (Without Parole) looks to complete that formidable quartet in Saturday's Darley-sponsored Newmarket feature. The one that very much got away from the bloodstock cognoscenti at 35,000gns, the huge talent whose third dam is the brilliant Zarkava has taken everything thrown at him at the July Festival, Glorious Goodwood and Irish Champions Weekend in his impressive stride. "He's great, he's been working really, really well...

Godolphin has extended its sponsorship of the two-day Dubai Future Champions Festival meeting for a further three years, along with extending their affiliation as an associate partner of The Jockey Club, Newmarket Racecourse announced on Friday. Godolphin has been the headline sponsor of the Future Champions Festival since its inception in 2015, and the Maktoum family has previously sponsored the G1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes since 2000. Godolphin and The Jockey Club have enjoyed a successful partnership with both the Under Starters Orders Programme and Dubai Future Champions Education Week forming...

Prince of Arran (GB) (Shirocco {Ger}) and Purple Moon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who were both placed in the G1 Melbourne Cup, will parade with seven other retired racehorses during the Dubai Future Champions Festival at Newmarket's Rowley Mile on Oct. 9. Beginning at 12:15 p.m., the parade aims to showcase the versatility of the thoroughbred together with the range of activities now open to horses when they finish their racing careers, thanks to the work of Retraining of Racehorses (RoR). Five of the nine former runners were raced by Godolphin,...