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Dubai Millennium winning the G1 Dubai World Cup
©Trevor Jones
DUBAI MILLENNIUM (GB) - Deceased
- Age: N/A
- Colour: Bay
- Gender: Horse
- Sire: Seeking The Gold (USA)
- Dam: Colorado Dancer (GB)
Dubai Millennium failed to hit the target once, in the Derby at Epsom after proving unsuited by the trip and the nature of the course. His score otherwise was 100 per cent, starting with a maiden event at Yarmouth that he won by a satisfying five-lengths. He made a pleasing three-year-old debut when taking a conditions race at Doncaster, followed by a victory in a Listed event at Goodwood before the Classic.
After a break in the wake of the Derby he started the Pattern train rolling in the Group Two Prix Eugene Adam at Maisons-Laffitte over 10 furlongs, followed by two Group One races at a mile, the Prix du Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques le Marois at Deauville and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot, each of which he won easily.
The foresight of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed in re-naming Dubai Millennium before he raced as a two-year-old was now looking a stroke of genius and on his first start at four the colt put up a stunning display to win the third leg of the Maktoum Challenge at Nad Al Sheba, over the course and distance of the Dubai World Cup, in a course record time.
Dubai Millennium's all-the-way six-length victory in the 2000 Dubai World Cup in March, witnessed by millions around the globe, took Sheikh Mohammed and his brothers to a new level of emotion and pride. The time was a new course record of 1m 59.50s.
Another Group One came his way in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot, in which he left his rivals for dead in triumphing by 8 lengths. Dubai Millennium was now being hailed as the best in the world but injury cut short his career in August 2000 and then tragically he died from grass sickness on April 29, 2001 towards the end of his first season as a stallion at Sheikh Mohammed's Dalham Hall Stud.