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Doyle set for lightning desert raid

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The star English rider is teaming up with his English mentor, the globe-trotting Clive Brittain, as well as leading Dubai-based Sri Lankan handler, Dhruba Selvaratnam.

Doyle will ride the smart five-year-old Pegnitz for Brittain as well as the speedy three-year-old filly Crimplene.

Selvaratnam is likely to have two runners on the World Cup card and has promised Doyle at least one of them.

Doyle, attached to high-flying local trainer Andy Leung Ting-wah, was the runaway Dubai champion for their 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons.

He said yesterday: 'Both the Jockey Club and Andy [Leung] have been great in clearing me to go.

'It should be a fantastic meeting. I don't have a ride in the big one but the supporting races are cracking affairs.

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