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SHOW GOES ON IN A STRAITS JACKET: Rolf Johnson sees racing defy desert storm but crumple in chill wind here

Rolf Johnson on acing amid a global turmoil.

Has the world gone completely mad? (Don’t answer on a post card, it will never get here).

In what is playing out as the ‘Straits of Hormuz Stakes’ (pardon me for making light of the disaster), the Formula One Grand Prix in Bahrain and Saudi were withdrawn not under orders, yet horseracing was undisturbed at the Dubai World Cup meeting next door in Meydan.
What’s going on? The Ferraris, Mercedes, Red Bulls would have hurtled round circuits at drone dodging speed; the international racehorses were, by comparison, sitting ducks – on good to soft going.
Happy to say that on World Cup day last m...

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