The Al Maktoum Challenge, is a horse race run over a distance of 1,900 metres (approximately one and three-sixteenth miles) on dirt in late January at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
The event was known as Al Maktoum Challenge, Round 3 and was the third of three races in the Al Maktoum Challenge series which serve as trial races for the Dubai World Cup but was renamed in 2024 It was first run in 1994 on dirt at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse.
It was transferred to Meydan in 2010 where it was run on the synthetic Tapeta Footings surface.
In 2015 the synthetic surface at Meydan was replaced by a dirt track.
[1] The race was originally run over 2,400 metres before he current distance was established in 1996.