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Serena lifts Rooney, Mata Miami crown chase away gloomy clouds SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014 16 19 Messi penalty propels Barcelona to the top Page 18 DUBAI: Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (center-back) ruler of Dubai, gestures while standing behind his daughters Salma (center) and Al-Jalilia (center-bottom) holding the trophy after his horse African Story won the Dubai World Cup, the worldí’s richest horse race. — AFP African Story wins $10m Dubai World Cup DUBAI: They came from Europe and Asia, from time 2 mins 01.61 secs under jockey Silvestre “I hadn’t trained the winner (of this race) for Sousa said. “It’s a dream come true; I’m over the from Britain, Ireland and South Africa also get- South Africa and neighboring Saudi Arabia, but De Sousa. seven years and I felt a lot of pressure from a lot moon. We had a bit of bad luck earlier in the ting in on the winning act. In the World Cup the ruling Maktoum family dominated the $10 African Story won by two and three-quarter of people,” Bin Suroor said. evening but this has saved the night.” itself, the South African runner, Sanshaawes, million Dubai World Cup over 2000 metres at lengths from Mukhadram, with Cat O’Mountain “I thought African Story was the right horse Mukhadram’s jockey, Paul Hanagan, briefly reared up and caught a front foot in the gates Meydan racecourse. Sheikh Mohammed bin a further four and a quarter lengths adrift. for this race two years ago and I told that to the entertained hopes of victory when he asked of the stalls before the race started. He was Rashid al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai, saw Side Glance and Akeed Mofeed filled the boss. He is a special horse and I am dedicating his mount to accelerate on reaching the home unloaded and inspected by on-site veterinari- horses in his colors finish first and third, cour- next two places but Military Attack and Ruler this victory to my mother. I am going to give straight. ans, who cleared him to run, but he could only tesy of African Story and Cat O’Mountain Of The World, which were both expect to fea- her my winner’s trophy.” “For a moment I thought we’d stolen it but finish seventh. respectively. ture prominently, finished 10th and 12th we were beaten by a very good horse on the As for African Story, he is unlikely to contest And his brother, Sheikh Hamdan, saw his respectively. DE SOUSA’S BIGGEST VICTORY night,” he said. African Story’s bid to win the the major races in Europe when Bin Suroor silks carried into second place by Mukhadram. Red Cadeaux, which chased home Animal De Sousa, for his part, was celebrating his Dubai World Cup came after a flurry of runners transfers his string from Dubai to Newmarket African Story was a revelation, stalking front- Kingdom in the race 12 months ago, again ran first winner in the world’s richest race. owned by the Al Maktoum family failed to next month. running Mukhadram from the outset before well to finish sixth. Even though he had won Originally from Brazil, he was retained to ride meet expectations in the previous seven races The seven-year-old is seen as a specialist sweeping past with 200 metres left to run. the race five times previously, victory meant a for Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin enterprise for Thoroughbreds. runner on the synthetic surface at Meydan The horse who finished fifth in this race 12 lot to the winning trainer, Saeed Bin Suroor, 14 months ago. This was the biggest victory of In a cosmopolitan gathering of horses from racecourse, where Jennifer Lopez closed pro- months ago looked a different proposition this who trains exclusively for Sheikh Mohammed his career. around the globe, runners from Hong Kong ceedings with a live concert lasting 45 min- time, stopping the clock in a new track-record and his family. “It’s so special to win this race,” an elated De and Japan won two races each, with horses utes. — AFP Terry gifts Palace win ‘Workers Cup’ for title hopes and acknowledged that they could Qatar laborers not afford to slip up again against another Crystal Palace 1 team in the bottom half of the table. DOHA: FIFA 2022 football World Cup host Qatar, criticised Perhaps with one eye on the midweek trip for the dire conditions of foreign laborers building facilities to Paris, Mourinho made a switch to a 4-3-3 for- for the tournament, is holding a competition just for them, mation, employing David Luiz, Nemanja Matic organisers said yesterday. And the manager of a public rela- and Frank Lampard in a three-man midfield. tions firm in Qatar said the tournament is aimed at deflating Chelsea 0 The change appeared to unsettle the visi- accusations that Doha is mistreating the migrants building tors and they struggled to find the fluency that the venues for the World Cup. marked the opening stages of the victories “We care about the workers because they are the ones against Galatasaray and Arsenal that followed building the stadiums and facilities,” said Nasser Kuwari. LONDON: Chelsea’s Premier League title hopes the loss at Villa. Labor unions and rights campaigners say the migrant work- suffered a major blow after John Terry’s 52nd- Against the Gunners, Chelsea had been 3-0 ers building the multi-million-dollar infrastructure for the minute own goal condemned Jose Mourinho’s up inside 17 minutes. On this occasion, it took World Cup facing difficult living and working conditions in side to a 1-0 defeat at relegation-threatened them the same period of time to create the first energy-rich Qatar. Crystal Palace yesterday. The loss, Chelsea’s sec- notable chance, with Cesar Azpilicueta finding Amnesty International has they were being treated like ond successive away defeat, meant the league his way to the byline and producing a low cross “animals,” and urged FIFA to press Qatar to improve the con- leaders were unable to increase the pressure that Andre Schurrle directed wide. ditions of the laborers, most of them from South Asia. on Manchester City and Liverpool, their nearest It was Palace, though, who responded more And a report by the International Trade Union challengers. positively to that opportunity, with Pulis’s side Confederation said as many as 4,000 workers might die on For Palace, a first win in six games moved offering more of a forward threat after with- LONDON: Crystal Palace’s Mile Jedinak (right) tussles with Chelsea’s Branislav building sites before the tournament kicks off. Tony Pulis’s side five points clear of the bottom standing Chelsea’s early pressure. Ivanovic during their English Premier League soccer match at Selhurst Park. — AP Qatar has dismissed that report as full of “factual errors” three and improved their chances of avoiding Yannick Bolasie’s pace down the left was Visiting centre-back Gary Cahill was have been ahead four minutes after the restart and published a list of guidelines aimed at protecting the rights of the expatriate workers. an immediate return to the Championship. causing Branislav Ivanovic problems and the involved in both incidents, appearing to catch had Terry not scuffed a clear chance from a It is against this background that competition in the Chelsea were unable to find a response winger should have put Palace ahead in the Cameron Jerome late in the 28th minute and Lampard corner. “Workers Cup” began this month for the second year run- after Terry had headed past Petr Cech from Joel 25th minute when he was picked out by Jason then halting Bolasie with a sliding tackle four Once again, though, Palace’s response was Ward’s cross and Mourinho must now lift his minutes later. impressive. Within a minute Jerome had sent a ning, as 24 teams started squaring off until two of them Puncheon’s right-wing cross. The DR Congo reach the April 25 finals seeking a grand prize of 18,000 riyals side ahead of their Champions League quarter- Referee Lee Mason deemed neither inci- glancing header wide from a Bolasie cross international had time to control the ball and ($5,000/3,623 euros). final first leg at Paris Saint-Germain. finish, but his first touch was poor and he could dent worthy of punishment, but it appeared when he should have done better. Mourinho had chosen to focus on the The players, Asians and Africans mostly, are all migrant only find the side-netting when he finally got that Pulis was offering a different view when he The miss was quickly forgotten, however, as workers employed by construction companies, said Adil defeat at Aston Villa two weeks previously, and his shot away. walked off the pitch with the match official at Palace produced another left-wing cross, this not last weekend’s comprehensive 6-0 defeat Ahmed, managing director of organisers QSports. “We want- That should have been a warning for the interval. time from Ward, that Terry diverted into his ed to bring a programme that the workers can actually call of Arsenal, in the build-up to this game, repeat- Chelsea, but the visitors seemed unable to Mourinho clearly believed that his side had own net under pressure from Joe Ledley. ing his criticism of referee Chris Foy’s perform- their own,” Ahmed told AFP. On Friday FIFA accepted “some move through the gears. And they survived under-performed during the first period and Chelsea were stunned and their attempts responsibility” over the welfare of migrant workers but its ance at Villa Park.