The UAE 2000 Guineas, is a

horse race Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its bas ...

run over a distance of 1,600 metres (one mile) on dirt in February at

Meydan Racecourse Meydan Racecourse is a racecourse in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The grandstand is a half mile in length, and can accommodate over 60,000 spectators. Meydan opened on 27 March 2010, replacing Nad Al Sheba Racecourse, which formerly occu ...

Dubai Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...

. The race is restricted to three-year-olds. It was first contested in 2000 on dirt at

Nad Al Sheba Racecourse Nad Al Sheba Racecourse was Thoroughbred horse racing facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates opened in 1986. It had a 2,200 m left-handed dirt race track and a left-handed grass, turf course of the same distance. It operated from November throug ...

. It was transferred to Meydan in 2010 where it was run on the synthetic Tapeta Footings surface. In 2015 the synthetic surface at Meydan was replaced by a dirt track. The UAE 2000 Guineas began as an ungraded race before being promoted to Group 3 level in 2002.

Records

Record time: *1:34.80 - Bachir ''2000'', Honour Devil ''2008'' Most wins by a

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: * 3 -

Frankie Dettori Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori (; born 15 December 1970), is an Italian jockey who was based in England for a career spanning over 35 years. He was British flat racing Champion Jockey three times (1994, 1995 and 2004) and rode the winners of 287 ...

''2001, 2002, 2009'' * 3 -

Mickael Barzalona M Barzalona (born 3 August 1991 in Avignon, France) is a France, French-born Thoroughbred horse race, Thoroughbred horse racing jockey, who is the retained jockey in France for Godolphin (racing), Godolphin. Career Barzalona was born into a raci ...

''2011, 2012, 2014'' Most wins by a trainer: * 7 -

Saeed bin Suroor Saeed bin Suroor (; born 16 November 1968 in Dubai) is a horse racing horse trainer, trainer in Great Britain. Formerly a policeman, he took out his training licence in 1995 and the following year was appointed as the trainer for Mohammed bin Ra ...

''2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2015, 2017, 2019'' Most wins by an owner: * 8 -

Godolphin Racing Godolphin (Arabic: جودولفين) is the Maktoum family's private Thoroughbred horseracing stable and was named in honour of the Godolphin Arabian, who came from the desert to become one of the three founding stallions of the modern Thor ...

''2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019''

Winners

References

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Records

Winners

See also

References