Party Of Five in Dubai: April 2012

This past weekend was the Dubai World Cup, which is one of the world's richest horse races. It's the UAE's version of The Breeder's Cup, with horses flown in from all over the world to compete in 9 races. And the best part of it all, Godolphin had a very successful evening with three winners and one second; including a first and second in the World Cup race!

We started off the weekend with a World Cup Welcome Party, that was held at the Meydan Beach Club located in JBR (Jumeirah Beach Residence). Then the races were on Saturday evening at the new racecourse, Meydan. Here are some photos of the event:

WORLD CUP WELCOME PARTY - THURSDAY, MARCH 29TH

Mercedes G5's parked outside of the party. They are driven by Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Hamdan (Crown Prince of Dubai). It's hard to tell but their license plates numbers are 1 and 11. The ruling family, very important people and the very wealthy drive vehicles with very low numbers!

The party was held on the beach with the fireworks show booming over the water

The Meydan Beach Club and the skyline behind it

The Boys: Tim Yakteen (our dear friend from CA and in town with horses for the World Cup), Rod, Bhupat Seemar (another great friend that trains horses and lives in Dubai year round) and Richie Mullen (jockey in Dubai and the UK)

My sweet friend Caroline Seemar. We were good friends with she and Bhupat when we all lived in CA, and now they have been in Dubai for almost 9 years!

Caroline, Bhupat and Tim

Tim, Ashlee, Rod & Caroline

DUBAI WORLD CUP - SATURDAY, MARCH 31ST

A lot of people wear fascinators to the World Cup

Caroline & I with two of her friends, Alex & Evelyn. Evelyn (in the gold and black) was wearing a hat made by a local jeweler and it was covered in diamonds that were worth over $1,000,000! The hat even came with a body guard. She was a contestant in the Jaguar Style Stakes: Best Hat where the winner was awarded with a Jaguar XK convertible for one year! Evelyn won the contest last year!!