00:00Good day and welcome to the gulf news update for Sunday, March the 26th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Arrogate showed his class again in the Dubai World Cup
00:12as he came from last place after a delay out of the stalls
00:15to win by an impressive two and a quarter lengths last night.
00:18With the win, four-year-old Arrogate became the highest-earning racehorse ever,
00:23grossing more than $17 million for winning seven races out of eight in his career.
00:29In the spectacular finale of the world's richest race day at Maidan Racecourse,
00:33Arrogate produced a powerful finish under jockey Mike Smith
00:37to beat Gunrunner and Neolithic to claim the $10 million prize.
00:42Meanwhile, the big winners of the Maidan Style Stakes looked pretty in pink
00:46as their outfits matched unexpectedly.
00:49Anna Pribylova, named Best Dressed Lady, wore a floral pink dress from Chi-Chi London.
00:55Nadar Tiarab, named Best Dressed Man for the second year in a row, donned a self-made peach pink suit.
01:02The U.S. military has acknowledged for the first time that it launched an airstrike against Daesh in Mosul,
01:08where residents say more than 100 people were killed in a single event.
01:12If confirmed, the March 17 incident would mark the greatest loss of civilian life
01:17since the U.S. began airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
01:22Beijing-backed civil servant Carrie Lam was chosen to be Hong Kong's next leader today
01:27amid accusations that Beijing is denying the financial hub a more populist leader.
01:33The majority of the China-ruled city's 7.3 million people have no say in deciding their leader,
01:39who is chosen from among several candidates by an election committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists.
01:45Lam will become Hong Kong's first female chief executive when she takes office on July 1.
01:51And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 28°C, dropping to 24°C at night.
01:58That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
02:00And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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