Buena Vista heads Japan challenge at World Cup
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Japanese mare Buena Vista will be racing on Saturday not only for the world's richest racing prize at the Dubai World Cup but also to lift the spirits of the disaster-stricken nation.
The five-year-old is one of three Japanese horses in the $10 million race, along with Transcend and Victoire Pisa.
Buena Vista had already arrived in Dubai when the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, but its owners have since been forced to relocate 200 other horses and staff from one of its training centers because it was only 19 miles from the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
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