Horse Racing tips: Our trader’s 3 plays could be magic at Meydan today

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15:40 Hard Taskmaster

Saeed Bin Suroor has kicked off the UAE season and duly has one of the favourites here in Global Heat, but I feel this is the one of his that can be opposed. HARD TASKMASKER having his second run since being gelded and got a nice pipe opener on the dirt in Jebel Ali in December.

He is the only course and distance winner in the field and is only 3lbs higher in the weights from that victory. He is one of the stronger plays on the card today, with Adrie de Vries booked to ride.

16:15 Real World

This is possibly the most interesting race on the card and we have some absolute stalwarts of the Meydan dirt against some young pretenders, including French Group One winner Mkfancy. But, the one I really like is REAL WORLD for the Saeed Bin Suroor and Pat Cosgrove team.

He fluffed his the start the race on his dirt debut then came home very fast running against the bias. With a slightly better start today he will be hard beat and is getting a good deal of weight from the older horses.

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16:50 Mouheeb

A lot can be said about the Charlie Appleby favourite Rebel’s Romance, such as how favourable time his compares with Kinross on the same card at Kempton and the only doubt that remains is will he act on the dirt. On the basis of probabilities, he probably should being by Dubawi out of a Street Cry mare.

However, the bet I really want and my NAP is MOUHEEB in the place Only 2 Places market. He was by far the most impressive maiden in Jebel Ali this year, he handles the dirt and his jockey Ryan Curatolo has been the breakout jockey of the year in Dubai. He may not beat Rebel’s Romance if Rebel’s Romance acts on the dirt, but I can’t have Mouheeb out of the top two in this one.