Jim Crowley is expecting “considerable improvement” from Hukum in Saturday’s Longines Sheema Classic at Meydan on Saturday.

The first jockey to the late Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Shadwell Stable partnered the giant Hukum to a head victory over Without A Fight in his prep in the City Of Gold at the start of the month, which was the five-year-old entire’s fifth win from his last seven starts.