Asian Racing Federation member country Korea claimed Dubai’s Meydan racecourse as their own on January 19 to become the 21st country to win a race in the Dubai World Cup Carnival.

Three new Listed races threw up plenty of Dubai World Cup Carnival indicators at Meydan on Thursday night with winners Rafeej, Surfer and Cooptado impressing on the new dirt track.

Dubai World Cup Carnival clues abound at Meydan on Thursday with the inaugural running of three new Listed thoroughbred races and the G2 Mazrat Al Ruwayah for Purebred Arabians.

Trainer Doug Watson has returned to his natural habitat in the new dirt track at Meydan Racecourse and never was this more apparent than when he saddled three workmanlike winners at the track on Thursday evening.