| 16th Dubai World Cup | |
| Horse Race: | Dubai World Cup |
| Location: | Meydan |
| Date: | 26 March 2011 |
| Winning Horse: | Victoire Pisa (JPN) |
| Winning Jockey: | Mirco Demuro |
| Winning Trainer: | Katsuhiko Sumii (JPN) |
| Winning Owner: | Yoshimi Ichikawa |
| Previous: | 2010 |
| Next: | 2012 |
The 2011 Dubai World Cup was a horse race held at Meydan Racecourse on Saturday 26 March 2011. It was the 16th running of the Dubai World Cup.
The winner was Yoshimi Ichikawa's Victoire Pisa, a four-year-old dark bay or brown colt trained in Japan by Katsuhiko Sumii and ridden by Mirco Demuro. Victoire Pisa's victory was the first in the race for his jockey, trainer and owner and the first for a horse trained in Japan.
Victoire Pisa had been the champion three-year-old colt in Japan in 2010 when he had won the Satsuki Shō and the Arima Kinen. Before being sent to Dubai he had been campaigned exclusively on turf: the World Cup was his first race on a synthetic surface. In the 2011 Dubai World Cup he started a 20/1 outsider and won by half a length from another Japanese horse Transcend (a dirt specialist), with the Godolphin runner Monterosso a neck away in third. The 2/1 favourite Twice Over finished ninth of the fourteen runners.[1]
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| Pos. | Marg. | Horse (bred) | Age | Jockey | Trainer (Country) | Odds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoire Pisa (JPN) | 4 | Mirco Demuro | Katsuhiko Sumii (JPN) | 20/1 | ||
| 2 | ½ | Transcend (JPN) | 5 | Shinji Fujita | Takayuki Yasuda (JPN) | 40/1 | |
| 3 | nk | Monterosso (GB) | 4 | Mickael Barzalona | Mahmood Al Zarooni (GB/UAE) | 40/1 | |
| 4 | nk | Cape Blanco (IRE) | 4 | Jamie Spencer | Aidan O'Brien (IRE) | 4/1 | |
| 5 | ¾ | Gio Ponti (USA) | 6 | Ramon A. Dominguez | Christophe Clement (USA) | 12/1 | |
| 6 | 1 | Gitano Hernando (GB) | 5 | Johnny Murtagh | Marco Botti (GB) | 14/1 | |
| 7 | ½ | Musir (AUS) | 5 | Christophe Soumillon | Mike de Kock (SAF) | 12/1 | |
| 8 | ½ | Buena Vista (JPN) | 5 | Ryan Moore | Hiroyoshi Matsuda (JPN) | 7/1 | |
| 9 | 1¼ | Twice Over (GB) | 6 | Tom Queally | Henry Cecil (GB) | 2/1 fav | |
| 10 | nk | Prince Bishop (IRE) | 4 | Ahmed Ajtebi | Saeed bin Suroor (GB/UAE) | 25/1 | |
| 11 | 2¼ | Golden Sword (GB) | 5 | K. Shea | Mike de Kock (SAF) | 12/1 | |
| 12 | ½ | Richard's Kid (USA) | 6 | Richard Mullen | Satish Seemar (UAE) | 50/1 | |
| 13 | 12 | Fly Down (USA) | 4 | Julien Leparoux | Nick Zito (USA) | 25/1 | |
| 14 | 1¼ | Poet's Voice (GB) | 4 | Frankie Dettori | Saeed bin Suroor (GB/UAE) | 11/1 |
Further details of the winner, Victoire Pisa