Worcester

WinStar Farm, Commonwealth Thoroughbreds and Zedan Racing's defending G1 Dubai World Cup champion Country Grammer (Tonalist) tops a dozen North American entries for the Dubai World Cup program at Meydan Racecourse Saturday, Mar. 25. The prospective fields were revealed overnight by the Dubai Racing Club. The 6-year-old is one of 13 in the field for the $12-million centerpiece of the meeting, including no fewer than eight runners from Japan topped by Panthalassa (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), who registered a half-length defeat of Country Grammer in the G1 Saudi Cup last...

Worcester Racecourse staff are working to restore its facilities for two meetings next week after the course was vandalised overnight on Thursday. Staff arrived at the course on Friday morning to find that the temporary weighing room-built to comply with pandemic regulations-had been broken into and trashed. The stable staff catering facility was also damaged. "The weighing room has been completely trashed overnight by mindless vandals, and an adjacent one where we have a catering arrangement on a race day," said Rebecca Davies, executive director at the track. "There's a...