Just checking in on everyone's favorite emirate this morning.

I missed this one a week and a half ago, apparently His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai has been given a six-month ban from long-distance horse racing after his horse tested positive for banned substances.

I mention this now because his son Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Executive Council Chairman, has also been banned for testing positive for horse steriods.

Well, his horse did, not him.

Of course, he blamed the "intense competition" among the horse grooms which lead to "errors of judgement by them". Because I'm sure there's no "intense competition" among the riders in a 120-kilometer endurance race.

Class act, that Hamdan.

In other news, a building collapsed in Deira, Dubai needs more drug rehab and they just opened their first robotic parking lot.

Yikes.