Dubai World Cup 2008 - The Richest Horse Race in the World

Curlin - Dubai World Cup

Yesterday - The 13th edition of Dubai World Cup; The richest horse race in the world with US $ 6 million at stake has attracted global attention.

At Nad Al Sheba Racecourse in Dubai, Curlin the American horse (winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic and U.S. Horse of the Year) won the Dubai World Cup being the horse of the year and letting America to have the cup for the 6th time. UAE lost the competition this year, so the winnings are still 7 times among the 13 editions.

13 horses officially were sharing.. They included 3 from KSA “owned by princes Abdullah Bin Abdul Azeez, and his sons, and Bandar Bin Abdul Azeez’ sons”, 1 from Japan and another horse from France.

UAE, Hard luck!
We’ll be waiting for you next year.

Don't Switch Off Your Mobile Phone On This Emirates Flight

Believe it or not!

Finally, you can use your mobile phone while you are in the plane. Yes! In the plane, in the air.. for the first time in the human race in the airline industry..

This great achievement has been accomplished by “Emirates Airlines” ..
Emirates Airlines became yesterday “Thursday, March 20, 2008” the first commercial airline in the world and in the air traveling history to provide in-flight mobile telephony service to passengers, as the company said.
Yesterday, and on the board of Emirates Airbus A340-300 aircraft flying from Dubai to Casablanca in Morocco, passengers used this service safely during the flight on altitude reached 30,000 feet from ground.
"All seats across our fleet are already equipped with in-seat phones, as well as email and text messaging capabilities via the in-seat entertainment system," Emirates chairman and chief executive Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said this statement.
This project was completed with AeroMobile providing the airline with the AeroMobile system (which allows the users to use their mobile phones with the minimum power).
"We know that many airlines are interested in AeroMobile and will be keen to follow Emirates' lead." AeroMobile chief executive Bjorn-Taale Sandberg said.

So, this system has been added and applied on Emirates Airbus A340-300 aircraft and has been installed and will be applied shortly on a Boeing 777-300.

The job was completed through the past 18 months with expenditures reached $ 27,000,000.

Sources: economictimes.com, uaekey.com, aeromobile

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