Dubai is a Muslim country and the dance brand, housed at the new upmarket beach club Meydan at Jumeriah Beach Residence, is rather more restrained than the original.
They have never won the world's richest horse race at Meydan despite sending top horses including Game on Dude last year and three-time Eclipse Award winner Gio Ponti in 2011.
"One of the biggest healers was getting the first horse for my friends, " said Douglas, dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses at the Meydan Hotel which overlooks the track.
First held at the now-disused Nad Al Sheba racecourse 18 years ago, the races were moved in 2010 to the new Meydan Grandstand, where the horses now run on tapeta (all weather turf) instead of dirt.