DUBAI MOON'S EXTRAORDINARY FORM BLITZ

By Graham Potter | Saturday, February 3, 2024

Here’s a run of form that might be difficult to emulate.

It was a case of a seven-day form blitz from the six-year-old gelding Dubai Moon, who was a forty-race veteran with three wins behind his name when he arrived at the Kyneton and Hanging Rock race meeting on December 26 to compete in a 2400m contest ... a race he went on to win by eight lengths.

Then, just a day later on December 27, trainer Frankie Stockdale took Dubai Moon to Moe for another 2400m Handicap which he duly won by a 1.25 length margin.

Then, just five days later, Stockdale and Dubai Moon were at it again, this time on their home track at Pakenham where the son of Prince of Dubai trashed his opposition when stepping up the distance test to 2550m, winning by a five-length margin.

That made it three staying wins in seven days by a combined winning margin of 14.25 lengths, a series of results which doubled the gelding’s number of career wins.

Jockey Aaron Lynch enjoyed the ride in the first and third of those wins while apprentice Dakotah Keane did the honours in the saddle in the middle win of Dubai Moon’s extraordinary three race victory parade.