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00:00Dubai World Cup winning jockey Fernando Hara wears an HD helmet cam to give you a captivating
00:09perspective of what it feels like riding on the challenging dirt track at Meydan Race
00:14Course in Dubai.
00:16The Meydan dirt track is known to favour the brave and Hara asserted that to win on this
00:21track you need a horse with good gate speed who can jump out of the gates and get into
00:26a good position.
00:27Otherwise you will compromise your chances if your horse cannot match the rivals for
00:32early speed.
00:33Hara, who won the 2007 Dubai World Cup aboard the Argentinian-bred Invasor on Ned del Sheba's
00:41dirt track, also highlighted the dreaded kickback where horses and jockeys have sand kicked
00:46in their faces.
00:47It's a daunting experience, says Hara, as this unique footage illustrates.
00:52I think for me the most important part in the race is the start, you know, with a good
00:57start I can go to plan A, what we would say in the distance, so what we plan with the
01:05trainer and the owner, you know, before the race and definitely it's more easier to go
01:12from there.
01:15Breaking bad, you know, you have to take your decision and definitely you can take
01:19a better view of the race first and then have a less feel of the pace of the race as well.
01:29Breaking good you can, you know, sense all that more easily.
01:33You've got a nice relaxed horse, you know, on the gate and usually they break okay.
01:37Most of the time they break okay, you know, unless they're kind of nervous inside and
01:42something like they take a bad step or something, they break slow.