Paddy Rudkin's remarkable early season form continued at Nad Al Sheba on Thursday evening when he dominated the feature event at the meeting, preparing the first three home.
And such is the strength of this early season form that it proved strong enough to withstand a powerful New Zealand challenge in the opening event when his two-year-old Breaking News made a successful debut.
In the main Conditions event on the turf Paris Sport, ridden by Willie Supple, was arguably the least favoured of the Rudkin trio however it was he who led home the other two, overhauling early leader Jalaab in the final furlong to win by just under three lengths with the newcomer Zaman four and a half lengths away third.
At the previous week's opening meeting, Rudkin also dominated the feature event when his Ariant, owned in the same interests as Paris Sport, defeated stablemate Fire Thunder however he went one better this week providing all placegetters.
Breaking News, ridden by Michael Hills, was the only runner in the six runner event bred in the Northern Hemisphere and the only horse in the race not trained by Graeme Rogerson.
Breaking News, despite giving age away to his five rivals, was the only horse that had been to the races before, the colt having being placed twice previously at Lingfield in September.
The other five horses were all prepared by Rogerson and all were graduates of the recent Pearls of Dubai Sale held in Dubai.
Flying Springbok, owned in South Africa and by Thunder Gulch, did the best of the Southern Hemisphere horses, fighting hard all the way down the straight and there is no doubt he will improve greatly on what he showed on his debut.
'I have only had Breaking News for three weeks and he should continue to improve with this,' Rudkin said.
Rudkin began the season in brilliant style at last weekend's opening meeting at Nad Al Sheba, preparing a winning treble and the success continued into last night.
Rudkin led for a long way in theTrainer's Championship last season, only being overhauled in the final six weeks by Satish Seemar and Saeed bin Suroor.
With Breaking News certain to improve, so too will stablemate Mile High, who produced a strong effort to finish a good third to Proud Irishman in the main sprint of the evening.
Proud Irishman gave the new combination of Dhruba Selvaratnam and Pat Smullen their second winner of the season and took his record to six wins from 12 starts when defeating Swiss Law.
In contrast to Rudkin, new trainer Peter Brette's early season frustrations continued when Swiss Law and stablemate Gleaming Hill provided him with his fourth and fifth second placegetters of the term.
Others to ride winners at the meeting were Darren Biggs, Ted Durcan and John Carroll.
