The 2011 Dubai World Cup was a

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held at Meydan Racecourse on Saturday 26 March 2011. It was the 16th running of the Dubai World Cup. The winner was Yoshimi Ichikawa's Victoire Pisa, a four-year-old dark bay or brown colt trained in Japan by Katsuhiko Sumii and ridden by

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. Victoire Pisa's victory was the first in the race for his jockey, trainer and owner and the first for a horse trained in Japan. Victoire Pisa had been the champion three-year-old colt in Japan in 2010 when he had won the Satsuki Shō and the

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. Before being sent to Dubai he had been campaigned exclusively on turf: the World Cup was his first race on a synthetic surface. In the 2011 Dubai World Cup he started a 20/1 outsider and won by half a length from another Japanese horse Transcend (a dirt specialist), with the Godolphin runner Monterosso a neck away in third. The 2/1 favourite Twice Over finished ninth of the fourteen runners.

Race details

* Sponsor: Emirates Airline * Purse: £6,410,256; First prize: £3,846,153 * Surface: Tapeta * Going: Standard * Distance: 10 furlongs * Number of runners: 14 * Winner's time: 2:05.94

Full result

* Abbreviations: nse = nose; nk = neck; shd = head; hd = head; nk = neck

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Victoire Pisa * Sex: Colt * Foaled: 31 March 2007 * Country: Japan * Sire: Neo Universe; Dam: Whitewater Affair (

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) * Owner: Yoshimi Ichikawa * Breeder:

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