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An artists impression of the Meydan project is seen in front of the construction of a stand of the new race track which is a part of Meydan project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, March 26, 2009. Along the homestretch rail, Dubai's horse racing elite hosted a white-tablecloth breakfast Thursday to watch warm-up runs and mingle with jockeys and trainers preparing for the world's richest stakes. It also was part of the farewell toasts to a venue that began as a curious patch of green in the sands and became one of the big payday goals for stables around the world. The modest Nad Al Sheba track is scheduled to close after Saturday's $6-million Dubai World Cup to make way for a place more in keeping with Dubai's outsized self-image: a complex with a more than half-mile-long (kilometer-long) luxury grandstand where spectators can arrive by canals carved in the desert. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)