Al Quoz Sprint Preview, Tips, Runners & Trends (Dubai World Cup Night)

Explore the prestigious Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan, a thrilling 1200m Group 1 turf race. Delve into past winners, top trainers, and jockeys while uncovering key trends that shape this exciting $1.5 million event, showcasing elite sprinting talent on Dubai World Cup Night.
Al Quoz Sprint Preview, Tips, Runners & Trends (Dubai World Cup Night)
Andy Powell
Andy Powell Content Editor

Horse Racing stats man, Andy has contributed to OLBG for 18 years - An Ipswich fan and F1 fanatic, he also contributes EFL football and Motor Sport opinion.

2025 Al Quoz Sprint Preview

Scheduled to take place in March of each year during the Dubai World Cup Night at the Meydan racecourse is the Al Quoz Sprint, a Group 1 race that is run over six furlongs on turf and is open to runners aged three or older.

Al Quoz Sprint Information:

Our dedicated Meydan tips page will not only bring you predictions from the OLBG racing tipsters for the upcoming card that includes the Al Quoz Sprint but will also have predictions for each meeting at Meydan throughout the season so be sure to head over there. You may also be interested in other preview blogs that we have packed full of information, head down to the Races Covered at Dubai World Cup Night section for links to these.

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How competitive is the Al Quoz Sprint market? When looking at the over-rounds for the last 10 renewals, the most competitive market was in 2015 when the race had an over-round of 120%. The race in 2014 was a race that was most in the bookie's favour with an over-round of 126%, whilst on average over the last 10 renewals of the Al Quoz Sprint, the over-round has been 122%, which means the bookie expects to pay out £100 for every £122 which is bet.

Below you will find the 2025 Al Quoz Sprint Trends, see which patterns have occurred over the recent renewals that you may be able to use for the next renewal, we also have a section that looks at the Al Quoz Sprint Trend Analysis.

These are the top three quickest-run Al Quoz Sprint over the last 10 renewals:

  1. Amber Sky (56.21) in 2014
  2. Buffering (56.34) in 2016
  3. Sole Power (57.24) in 2015

Looking at the future form, is the winner worth following next time out? From the past 10 if you had followed the winner of the Al Quoz Sprint next time out then you would have backed a total of 2 winners. Backing all 10 runners who have been out since to win at SP next time out, would have returned an LSP of +6.50. Whilst we wait for the 2025 Al Quoz Sprint remember you can get daily racing predictions from the expert tipsters on the racing predictions page.

When looking over the past 10 renewals, a time of 56.21 was set by Amber Sky in 2014, which is the quickest time over that period, the runner was trained by P F Yiu and ridden by Joao Moreira. The slowest winning time was set in 2017 when The Right Man won in a time of 1:09.59, booked to ride was Francois-Xavier Bertras by the trainer D Guillemin.

What the expert says...
The Nad Al Sheba Turf Sprint is the prep race to keep an eye on for this with The Right Man (2017), Jungle Cat (2018), Blue Point (2019) & A Case Of You (2022) all winning this after running in that race.

Andy Powell - Horse Racing Betting Expert - OLBG.com

Al Quoz Sprint Past Winners

Here are the Al Quoz Sprint past winners for the last 10 renewals. Each row details the year of the race, the horse which won along with the age & weight of the horse. Also detailed is the stall where the horse came from and the total number of runners in the race. The horse's trainer and the jockey at the time of winning the Al Quoz Sprint are also displayed, along with the starting price at which the horse was sent off.

YearHorse (Drawn)Info
2024
1:07.50
California Spangle (IRE)
6yo 9-4 (5 of 12) 6/1
Brenton Avdulla
A S Cruz (HK)
2023
1:08.61
Danyah (IRE)
6yo 9-5 (5 of 15) 33/1
Dane O'Neill
M Al Mheiri (UAE)
2022
1:08.81
A Case Of You (IRE)
4yo 9-0 (16 of 16) 14/1
Ronan Whelan
Adrian McGuinness (IRE)
2021
1:09.26
Extravagant Kid (USA)
8yo 9-5 (8 of 13) 14/1
Ryan Moore
Brendan P Walsh (USA)
2019
1:08.39
Blue Point (IRE)
5yo 9-0 (8 of 13) 4/6F
William Buick
Charlie Appleby (GB)
2018
1:09.37
Jungle Cat (IRE)
6yo 9-0 (10 of 13) 11/4F
James Doyle
Charlie Appleby (GB)
2017
1:09.59
The Right Man (GB)
5yo 9-0 (3 of 12) 12/1
Francois-Xavier Bertras
D Guillemin (FR)
2016
56.34
Buffering (AUS)
8yo 9-0 (9 of 13) 10/1
Damian Browne
Robert Heathcote (AUS)
2015
57.24
Sole Power (GB)
8yo 9-0 (7 of 16) 11/2
Richard Hughes
Edward Lynam (IRE)
2014
56.21
Amber Sky (AUS)
4yo 9-0 (8 of 12) 5/2
Joao Moreira
P F Yiu (HK)

Where have the winning runners come from?

Here are the countries where the winning trainers of the Al Quoz Sprint have been based:

  • GB: 2 winners with an additional 8 placings from 47 runners
  • HK: 2 winners with an additional 2 placings from 14 runners
  • IRE: 2 winners with an additional 0 placings from 10 runners
  • USA: 1 winner with an additional 6 placings from 18 runners
  • UAE: 1 winner with an additional 2 placings from 13 runners
  • AUS: 1 winner with an additional 1 placing from 9 runners
  • FR: 1 winner with an additional 0 placings from 9 runners
  • JPN: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 4 runners
  • SAF: 0 winners with an additional 1 placing from 2 runners
  • CAN: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 2 runners
  • BHR: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 2 runners
  • CZE: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 1 runner
  • NOR: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 1 runner
  • QA: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 1 runner
  • KSA: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 1 runner
  • KUW: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 1 runner

Al Quoz Sprint Trainer Statistics

The leading trainer in the Al Quoz Sprint over the last 10 renewals is Charlie Appleby who has won the race two times with those two winners coming from Jungle Cat (2018) and Blue Point (2019).

Here are some of the top Al Quoz Sprint trainer statistics over the last 10 renewals (R = Runners, W = Winners, P = Places including winners, Win LSP is based on 1pt Win and EW LSP is based on 0.5pt Win & 0.5pt Place):

TrainerR-W-PWinEW
Charlie Appleby16-2-6-10.58-8.34
M Al Mheiri3-1-1+31.00+17.80
A S Cruz3-1-3+4.00+3.15
Edward Lynam3-1-1+3.50+0.75
Brendan P Walsh2-1-1+13.00+7.40
D Guillemin2-1-1+11.00+6.20
P F Yiu2-1-1+1.50+0.50
Adrian McGuinness1-1-1+14.00+7.00
Robert Heathcote1-1-1+10.00+6.00
Peter Miller6-0-4-6.00+8.80

Al Quoz Sprint Jockey Statistics

Here are some of the top Al Quoz Sprint jockey statistics over the last 10 renewals (R = Runners, W = Winners, P = Places including winners, Win LSP is based on 1pt Win and EW LSP is based on 0.5pt Win & 0.5pt Place):

JockeyR-W-PWinEW
Ryan Moore9-1-1+6.00+0.40
William Buick8-1-3-6.33-5.33
Joao Moreira4-1-2-0.50-0.45
Dane O'Neill3-1-1+31.00+17.80
James Doyle3-1-1+0.75-0.35
Francois-Xavier Bertras2-1-1+11.00+6.20
Ronan Whelan1-1-1+14.00+7.00
Damian Browne1-1-1+10.00+6.00
Brenton Avdulla1-1-1+6.00+3.60
Richard Hughes1-1-1+5.50+2.75

Al Quoz Sprint Trend Analysis

✅ The trend factor which had produced 5+ winners and shows the best LSP, an LSP of +31.92 is when runners had 3 wins in the past year.

❌ The worst performing factor that has failed to produce a single winner is when runners ran in a Handicap when last winning, when backing these the trend shows a record of 0-34.

Here are the most recent winning draws along with the further placings in brackets:

  • 2024: Winner in 5 (8,2) [12 Runners]
  • 2023: Winner in 5 (6,2) [15 Runners]
  • 2022: Winner in 16 (6,12) [16 Runners]
  • 2021: Winner in 8 (4,2) [13 Runners]
  • 2019: Winner in 8 (7,1) [13 Runners]

The course which has produced the most winners of the Al Quoz Sprint is Meydan, there has been a total number of 6 winners of this race who ran at Meydan last time out.

The race is open to both sexes with the Male runners having produced a total of 10 winners from a total of 121 runners whilst the Female runners have produced 0 winners from a total of 14 runners.

Looking over the past renewals, there is only one stallion whose offspring have been disappointed with multiple attempts but no wins in the Al Quoz Sprint, that stallion is Oasis Dream who has failed to produce a winner from 8 runners.

Looking at the winning odds over the last 10 renewals, the biggest-priced winner was Danyah in 2023, winning for M Al Mheiri at odds of 33/1 under the guidance of Dane O'Neill. Looking at the runners at the head of the market over the last 10 renewals there have been 2 winning favourites in the race. Remember to bookmark the best racing tipsters page so you can get easy access to the best OLBG racing tipsters. All figures and trends above, such as the horse's previous runs are based on the information that is available on the racing post.

Article Contributor Information

We are blessed with an excellent team of specialists and experts at OLBG. Contributing to creating and maintaining this Al Quoz Sprint Preview are at hand, Andy and Darren. They both work on the Horse racing tips team team looking after the tipsters and managing the tips settlement, whilst also creating and managing all of the horse racing event previews for International racing.

Darren Brett

Darren Brett

Tipster Competition Manager

Darren has worked in the horse racing industry for decades bringing to OLBG for the last 20 years a wealth of knowledge, creating much of our content on these sports. Darren also manages our Grand National Guide and is the go-to font of knowledge for the world's greatest steeplechase.
Andy Powell

Andy Powell

Content Editor

Andy, a seasoned horse racing analyst with over 15 years of experience, delves into the intricacies of international horse racing, meticulously analyzing complex statistical data to uncover hidden trends. He spearheads the creation and management of OLBG's international horse racing trend blogs, providing valuable insights for bettors worldwide.

Races Covered at Dubai World Cup Night

Remember to head over to the Meydan predictions page to see which runner the racing tipsters are supporting in the Al Quoz Sprint and don't forget we also cover the following races at Dubai World Cup Night.

Dubai World Cup Night RacesLast WinnerInfo
Al Quoz SprintCalifornia Spangle (IRE)
6yo - 6/1
A S Cruz
Brenton Avdulla
Dubai Gold CupTower Of London (IRE)
4yo - 9/4
A P O'Brien
Ryan Moore
Dubai Golden ShaheenTuz (USA)
7yo - 10/1
B Seemar
Tadhg O'Shea
Dubai Sheema ClassicRebels Romance (IRE)
6yo - 25/1
Charlie Appleby
William Buick
Dubai TurfFacteur Cheval (IRE)
5yo - 20/1
J Reynier
Maxime Guyon
Dubai World CupLaurel River (USA)
6yo - 17/2
B Seemar
Tadhg O'Shea
Godolphin MileTwo Rivers Over (USA)
4yo - 33/1
Doug O'Neill
Edwin A Maldonado
UAE DerbyForever Young (JPN)
3yo - 8/11
Yoshito Yahagi
Ryusei Sakai

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