Soft Falling Rain, the only three-year-old in the field, overcome breaking from post thirteen to win the $1,000,000 Godolphin Mile Sponsored by Etisalat (UAE-II) at Meydan, the first thoroughbred race on the Dubai World Cup program.
Ridden to victory by Paul Hanagan, Soft Falling Rain was hung wide throughout the race as Alpha set a strong pace on the front end, but gradually moved up to reach contention as the field entered the homestretch. In the meantime, longshot Haatheq had made a bold run on the outside of Alpha to take command of the lead, and appeared to be on his way to victory. But Soft Falling Rain reeled him in with a powerful stretch run to win the race by three-quarters of a length while stopping the clock in 1:39.97 seconds.
Haatheq held second over the late-running Moonwalk in Paris, while Alpha tired in the final four hundred meters to finish fifth.
The winner, a son of National Assembly out of the Giant's Causeway mare Gardener's Delight, is owned by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum and is trained by Mike de Kock.
-Keelerman
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