THURSDAY’S third meeting of the 2020 Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan was highlighted by the $250,000 Group 2 Cape Verdi, a mile turf race for fillies and mares. The race was won in thrilling fashion by Godolphin’s Magic Lily, a daughter of classic winners New Approach and Dancing Rain, who won by a bobbing head on the line.

It was a third win in the race for both trainer Charlie Appleby and jockey James Doyle and produced a stakes and track record time of 1min 34.84sec. Runner-up by a nose was a game Nisreen, who shipped in for Team Valor International from France and was piloted Pierre-Charles Boudot.