Brave Lizard's Desire is fighting laminitis Lizard's Desire in happier days. LIZARD’S DESIRE,  the horse who scored a glorious victory in the Singapore Airlines International Cup after so nearly winning the world’s richest race, the $10-million Dubai World Cup, and the premier event in Hong Kong, the QEII Cup at Sha Tin, is fighting the debilitating hoof disease, laminitis, at his owner Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum’s farm in Dubai.  Earlier this year he contracted enteritis and the toxins had set off the laminitis, an extremely painful and debilitating inflammation of the hoof. "Ninety-five percent of the time laminitis is deadly, but he’s fighting it with all the determination and courage he showed us in his racing,’’  Mike de Kock told Nicci Garner of Racing Express."We’re hoping he’ll pull through. "He’s a great character. To do Dubai as hard as he did and then go on to run so well in Hong Kong and Singapore says a lot about how special he is.’’ It’s heartbreaking for everybody because he’s done a hell of a lot for many people, and the country.’’