What a prize: winning horse will earn staggering $10m
If there was ever an incentive to finally get our equine export restrictions lifted, this is it. Saudi Arabia has announced it will host a race in February 2020 where the prize for the winning horse will be $10m.
The $20m Saudi Cup will become the world’s richest race when it is run at King Abdulaziz racetrack in Riyadh on February 29 2020.
A further incentive is that horses who finish in the first 10 will share another $10 among them. The race, to be run on dirt over 1,800m, will have a maximum field of 14 runners. It is open to northern hemisphere four-year-olds and upwards and southern hemisphere three-year-olds and upwards and will be run at weight-for-age.
The new date on the racing calendar is sure to put Dubai’s nose out of joint as, until now its World Cup race, due to be held four weeks after the Riyadh event, has always been the richest dirt race.
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