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Jebel Ali Mile

horse race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ74114722 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Jebel Ali Mile, is a horse race for horses aged four and over, run at a distance of 1,600 metres (one mile) on dirt in January at Jebel Ali Racecourse in Dubai.

The Jebel Ali Mile was first contested in 2010 as a Listed race before being elevated to Group 3 class in 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jebel Ali Mile” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.