I don't touch horses from Dubai/Europe on dirt. In my opinion they are over bet and they do not produce. For those who are interested in fractions here they are...
26.13, :50.54 and 1:15.19
If those fractions were ran here we would think it was a low level claiming race. Of course synthetic courses have slower times but Daddy obviously had the perfect trip sitting off a very slow pace.
You forgot one time. The final time. Daddy Long Legs won in 1:58 and 1 fifth. TRAKUS charts for Dubai (UAE Derby is race 4)
Remember Master of Hounds from last year's Derby and Belmont? He was a nose from winning the same UAE Derby at the same track at the same distance. His time was 1:58 and 4 fifths. 3 fifths slower than Daddy Long Legs.
Master Of Hounds (also trained by Aiden O'Brien) went from the UAE Derby, without a single race on regular dirt in his life and finished a hard charging 5th beaten 5.5 lengths in the Kentucky Derby by Animal Kingdom. He had to weave thru traffic in the stretch of the Derby LINK
A lot of people including me, liked Master Of Hounds in the Belmont after that performance in the Derby. The track came up sloppy at Belmont and Master of Hounds broke slowly from the gate and got left behind and had no chance in that race.
Daddy Long Legs already has one race experience at Churchill on dirt. And he's got plenty of excuses as I already pointed out. He's probably a better horse than Master Of Hounds, if you look at their past performances from Europe. And if you look at their breeding, Daddy Long Legs might have more of a dirt pedigree than Master of Hounds does. Scat Daddy was a dirt horse. KingMambo was a turf horse, one of the great turf sires of all time. LINK
"Only one of Kingmambo’s top-level winners was a dirt horse, but he was the 12-furlong Belmont Stakes winner Lemon Drop Kid, now an accomplished sire in his own right and the sire of many high-class dirt and turf horses."
They weren't going much faster the first half mile in the Dubai World Cup, a 10 million dollar race. (Race 9 in the TRAKUS charts) 25.72 for the quarter and 49.94 to the half. 2 fifths of a second and 3 fifths of a second faster than the UAE Derby.
"Time is only important in prison"
Carl Nafzger, March 1990, after Unbridled won the slowest Florida Derby since Nashua in 1955.
Unbridled went on to win the Kentucky Derby that year. LINK