Dubai World Cup Tips

Limato is a class act and can prove the pick of the British runners on Dubai World Cup night at Meydan.

The Henry Candy-trained speedster has developed physically through the winter and with sprinting now the only option for him, connections are looking for a win in the Al Quoz Sprint.

Candy experimented with Limato trip-wise last year, campaigning him at all distances from a mile to five furlongs.

The five-year-old has shown he can cut it with horses over the minimum trip, courtesy of a second-placed finish to Mecca's Angel in the Nunthorpe, but this six furlongs is his optimum distance, as he showed in the July Cup.

Since his arrival at Meydan he has looked settled and relaxed, and that was the case when he worked on the training track on Thursday.

France look poised for a memorable night and Zarak and Vazirabad can hoist aloft the Tricolour for the Aga Khan, Alain du Royer-Dupre and Christophe Soumillon.

Zarak is an exciting son of Zarkava who impressed in his trial and can now show his true mettle with victory in the Dubai Turf.

Vazirabad was surprisingly beaten in his trial for the Dubai Gold Cup but, along with his stablemate, shone on the training track this week.

He can repeat his 2016 triumph in the longest race run at the Carnival.

Postponed looked unlucky when imprisoned behind horses in his warm-up for the defence of the Dubai Sheema Classic.

Roger Varian's charge tends to get edgy in the preliminaries but he can prove too strong for Jack Hobbs if on his A-game for Andrea Atzeni.

The each-way attraction in the Dubai World Cup has to be Hoppertunity at around odds of 14-1.

Bob Baffert's charge is at least as good as he was when third in the race last year, and can bustle up his odds-on stable companion Arrogate.

Aidan O'Brien is strong numerically without any single banker on the richest card in racing.

But from a value point of view, Lancaster Bomber appeals as an each-way speculation in the UAE Derby.

Last season's Dewhurst Stakes runner-up has done well physically through the winter.

SELECTIONS:

11.45 North America, 12.50 Vazirabad, 1.25 Lancaster Bomber, (each-way), 2.00 Limato, 2.35 St. Joe Bay, 15.30 ZARAK (NAP), 16.05 Postponed, 16.45 Hoppertunity (each-way).

DOUBLE: Zarak and Limato.