DUBAI Racing Channel’s Laura King is filming feature documentaries on former top runners in the UAE and on Monday she tracked down Royal Vintage, who won the 2008 Listed Al Bastakiya for Mike de Kock and Kevin Shea and then finished second in the UAE Derby to stable mate Honour Devil.

Now 12 years of age, the son of Rich Man’s Gold is based with a lovely family at Al Ruwayyah Stables, a livery yard in Dubai, as the photo below shows.