Best Mate owner Jim Lewis to have runner on Dubai World Cup night

Best Mate's owner, Jim Lewis is looking forward to having a big-race runner in a very different setting next year.

The owner will forever be associated with Best Mate, the Henrietta Knight-trained winner of three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups, while Edredon Bleu landed a Queen Mother Champion Chase and a King George in his colours.

Speaking at Exeter, where he presented the prize for a race named after Best Mate, Lewis said: ``I own a horse with Bernard Kantor in South Africa called Yorker, who has won a few Group Ones out there.

``He looks like being a good horse over a mile and a mile and a quarter. He's in quarantine in Mauritius and is going to Dubai, hopefully to run on World Cup night.

``He's trained by Geoff Woodruff at the moment, but will probably go to Mike de Kock when he's out there.''