The Dubai World Cup boasts $30.5 million in prizes, spread across nine races (including its namesake event, with an enormous $12 million purse), and attracts many of the world’s most elite equestrians.
“This is a huge operation,” says John Nicholls, quarantine manager at Dubai Racing Club.
“They get plenty of water, plenty of hay, and attention.”Emirates Skycargo has been transporting champion horses from across the world to the Dubai World Cup and Carnival races since 2002.
Horses travel in air-conditioned stalls in the cargo bay of a plane, which can fit up to 25 stalls, with up to three horses in each.
Horses walk to Meydan Racecourse from their quarantine stable for morning track work ahead of the Dubai World Cup.
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