Maktoum's Bid to Dominate the Racing World ; Book Review Dubai Millennium by Rachel Pagones Highdown Publishing 4sportsbooks.Co.Uk Price: Pounds 8.99, Saving 50% On Rrp

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I first visited Dubai in the mid-1980s when it was a regular haunt for thirsty British expatriates like me working in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. Even then, the contrast with Saudi Arabia was marked: Dubai was an obviously more liberal society but also one conscious of the need to build an infrastructure based not on oil but on international commerce and trade.

A phalanx of cranes stretched upwards into the clear blue skies above Dubai as the emirates' embryonic construction boom was already under way and a few miles outside the city centre, at Nad Al Sheba, ambitious plans were being laid for a desert racecourse.

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Maktoum's Bid to Dominate the Racing World ; Book Review Dubai Millennium by Rachel Pagones Highdown Publishing 4sportsbooks.Co.Uk Price: Pounds 8.99, Saving 50% On Rrp

That such a plan could succeed, for it has, is testimony to the drive and wealth of one man - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. To...

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