Stoute's Dubai hopes rest on Maraahel

Michael Stoute will bid to get his 2005 campaign off to a good start in Dubai on Saturday night when he saddles Maraahel in the Dubai Sheema Classic at Nad al Sheba.

Stoute’s season could hardly have begun on a worse note when he learned last month that stable jockey Kieren Fallon had resigned in order to take up a new position in Ireland with Aidan O’Brien.