World's Biggest Racetrack in Dubai
N24 for one billion euros in Dubai has built the largest horse racing track in the world. While horse racing banned in the emirate and profits expected from the plant is not. But Sheikh Mohammed dreams of Dubai Equestrian to make number one - despite financial problems.
The grandstand looks a bit like a UFO trodden, its two wings are the right and left ten stories high and a total of 1.6 miles long - with numerous suites and space for 60,000 horse fans. As the musician Sting was there recently, he worked down the jaw. Anything like he had never seen, "said Sting. It looked like a piece of science fiction.
Meydan is the largest Racecourse in the world. The estimated construction costs are in excess of one billion dollars. And it is the only horse racing track with an IMAX cinema next door - and with its own five-star hotel: 290 suites, the railings in the elevators are made from Swarovski crystal, the cheapest accommodation costs $ 3,000.
"Vision of the best racing track
In Meydan Godolphin is now at home, the racing stable of Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. "Sheikh Mohammed had a vision to create the best racecourse in the world," says Frankie Dettori, Godolphin's most successful jockey. ". And I can say with full conviction that he has accomplished this," What could be more exciting than to be organized before the eyes of 60,000 people a race - on a wonderful flat surface.
Sheikh Mohammed is a horse lover. He is regarded internationally as one of the most influential variables of the equestrian sport. He kept dropping himself with endurance racing success. Because Islam prohibits gambling, horse racing in Dubai is prohibited. This is not a problem, because money can also earn different.
Sheikh Mohammed has more than 50 of the best Stallions in the world. If one of them falls to action, it costs 50,000, in some animals even more than $ 150,000. Sheikh Mohammed's empire to include stud farms all over the world. Two years ago he bought one in Australia - as is rumored for 420 million dollars.
be built an entire city
By itself, probably Meydan likely never yield a profit. But soon an entire town around it should be in the city where it's all about horses . It is to attract paying visitors to Dubai. The best jockeys, trainers and breeders are already here, says Frankie Dettori. "This is the future. It's the best racecourse in the world - not just for kids, but also for us jockeys, "he says. "We have the best ground, the best grass-cars -. Fantastic," stated
But while workers at the plant before opening the final touch, negotiated the state holding company Dubai World, with their creditors. The Emirate has approximately 100 billion dollars in debt - astronomically much for such a small town. When Andrew Critchlow from Dow Jones Middle East leave the glittering opening of Meydan therefore leaves a sour aftertaste. "It is so, would go off as the sheikhs and buy new sports cars - all that they can not even pay off the loans for their old cars," he says. The
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