DUBAI MIRAGE can show he's the real thing with a victory in the bet365 Cambridgeshire Handicap (3.35) at Newmarket this afternoon.
After running down the field in the Britannia Handicap at Royal Ascot in June, the Saeed bin Suroor-trained son of Dubawi, who had scored at Kempton Park six days earlier, underwent a gelding operation.
The surgeon's knife looked to have worked the oracle when the three-year-old ran out the emphatic four-and-three-quarter-length winner of a one-mile handicap at Haydock Park at the beginning of last month.
Dubai Mirage failed in the follow-up bid when third to Raaeq at Sandown Park 15 days ago - but found the funeral cortège pace against him.
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