By The National
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — American super horse California Chrome will ship to Dubai in February with the aim of having a prep run at Meydan before the Dubai World Cup on March 26.
The California-bred was second to Prince Bishop in the world’s most valuable race in March, when he chased a lightning early pace and covered more ground than any runner. He later travelled to England but missed his run in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot due to a bruised foot and has not run since.
“We have two major goals,” part-owner Perry Martin told Thoroughbred Daily News. “One of those is that we have unfinished business in Dubai. We’d like to win the Dubai World Cup and then win the Breeders’ Cup Classic at the end of the year.”
Taylor Made Farms have bought out Steve Coburn’s share of the 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes hero and the four-year-old colt had been convalescing at Taylor Made in Kentucky throughout the summer.
In October he made his return to Los Alamitos in California and had his first racecourse gallop there last week as trainer Art Sherman tries to shift some of the 63.2kgs the colt put on during the summer.
Super Saturday is on March 5, and the third round of the Maktoum Challenge is the most likely prep race.