Arrogate finishes with flurry to win
Highest-earning racehorse wins in Dubai by 21⁄4 lengths
Arrogate showed his class again as he came from dead last out of the stalls to win the Dubai World Cup by an impressive 21⁄4 lengths on Saturday.
With the win, four-yearold Arrogate became the highest-earning racehorse ever, surpassing California Chrome, winner of the same race last year. Arrogate has grossed $17,084,600 for winning seven races out of eight in his career.
In the second-richest horse race in the world at $10 million, run over dirt and 2,000 meters at Meydan Racecourse, Arrogate produced a powerful finish under jockey Mike Smith to beat Gun Runner and Neolithic in a 1-2-3 for the U.S.
The winning time was 2 minutes, 2.15 seconds - slower than the course record set by Chrome last year - but understandable given the soft conditions after a second straight day of rain and thunderstorms in Dubai.
Arrogate, the No. 1rated racehorse in the world, started gaining momentum around the 800meter mark and swept past more than half a dozen rivals before setting his sight on the leaders.
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