Goldolphin's Maycocks Bay, Deloraine Double at Woodbine

Godolphin, the racing and breeding powerhouse founded by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is known for its stakes success across countries, winning significant races from the United Arab Emirates to Britain, the United States, and even farther afield. And of course, Canada. On May 30 at Woodbine, that was on display when two Godolphin homebreds, Maycocks Bay and Deloraine, traveled from the United States to capture graded stakes over the Toronto racetrack's all-weather Tapeta surface. Maycocks Bay made it look easy in the $135,227 Eclipse Stakes (G2), keenly taking the race to his opponents and dusting the opposition in a front-running score. Running off to a commanding lead down the backstretch under Sofia Vives, he held on for a comfortable 2-length victory. He raced 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.05 after fractions of :23.69, :47.08, and 1:11.01. Though he grew tired late, running his final sixteenth in :07.03, all of his rivals were even more fatigued from chasing him. "If you grab him, it's like pulling against the wall, so it's just (important) to find a happy rhythm," Vives said. "In the first turn on this surface, he was just floating, so I figured he was going to open up a little bit. But when we turned for home, we had plenty of horse to keep pulling away." Stanley House settled for second, just ahead of Runaway Again in third. Maycocks Bay, coming off a pair of on-the-board finishes in turf races this year at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots and Keeneland, won for the fourth time in 12 starts and for the first time at the stakes level. He paid $4.10 to win as the favorite He had one earlier stakes placing: a third in the Mineshaft Stakes (G3) last year when racing on dirt. Saturday's race marked his first try on Tapeta, though he had trained over it this spring while based with trainer Mike Stidham at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland. The chestnut 5-year-old gelding is a son of the late Speightstown out of the stakes-winning Medaglia d'Oro mare Hallie Belle. A race earlier, Deloraine, stakes-placed on three prior occasions, also broke through with an initial stakes victory in the $110,471 Belle Mahone Stakes (G3). Alternating between fifth and fourth in traffic for the first half of the 1 1/16-mile race on Tapeta, Deloraine found daylight nearing the head of the lane and finished with a flourish to catch longtime leader Stylish Sue and inch clear to prevail by three-quarters of a length. She was timed in 1:44.47 and returned $20 to win. "Once the split opened, she took it like a brave soldier, and she won a very gallant, gutsy win today," jockey Ryan Munger said. Favored Stylish Sue held on to be a clear second, well ahead of show finisher Equitas. The victory for Deloraine was her first since 2024 when she captured a pair of races to finish her juvenile campaign. Last year at 3, she began 2025 by showing in three consecutive stakes—the Suncoast Stakes, Florida Oaks (G3T), and Gazelle Stakes (G3)—before regressing in the summer and receiving time off. She returned this year with a ninth-place finish on turf at Keeneland in April in a return race that trainer Eoin Harty felt she needed to regain fitness. Godolphin racing office and sales manager Emma Browne Lovatt called Saturday's victory a meaningful win for the filly. "She's had obviously a few attempts at it, and to finally get the win, bringing her back on the all-weather, bringing her up to Woodbine—it was the perfect combination for a very important win for us," she said. Deloraine is a homebred 4-year-old bay daughter of Candy Ride (ARG) out of the Discreet Cat mare Elaine's Cat. Deloraine is the fourth graded stakes winner for her sire in 2026, joining Emerging Market, Navajo Warrior, and Hit Show. Candy Ride stands for $60,000 this year at Lane's End Farm in Kentucky. Possiblemente Earns First Graded Win The third and final stakes of the day also went to a shipper from the U.S., although Possiblemente entered the $112,211 Jacques Cartier Stakes (G3) with plenty of Woodbine experience. That experience had not produced much success for several trainers, going 0-for-6 with a third-place finish in six starts over the Tapeta. During the winter, T and E Racing transferred the 6-year-old Tale of Ekati gelding to trainer Joe Sharp for whom he made three starts with two victories over Turfway Park's Tapeta and was most recently fifth, beaten only 1 1/4 lengths, in the May 2 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes (G2T) at Churchill Downs. That turnaround in form accompanied a decision by Sharp to cut back to sprint distances, a move praised by jockey Eswan Flores, who had ridden the horse twice last year going two turns for trainer Martin Drexler. "I got to give all the credit to Joe," Flores said. "Shortening (Possiblemente) up, I think it's one of the best things anybody could have done with this horse. Joe's training just puts two and two together." Flores should save some of the credit for himself as he took a firm hold down the backstretch to back the gelding off an early pace of :22.31 and :45.40, managing to angle in and save some ground. "I found a way to relax him and find myself on the inside saving a little bit of ground on the turn," Flores said. "The rest is him." He had to wait around the far turn for room to open, but he found his way into an opening as they swung into the stretch. Pacesetting Western Whirl was tough and continuing to fight, but Possiblemente hit another gear as Flores swapped from the left-handed stick to the right. He was too much for Western Whirl in the final sixteenth and went on by to win by a length. Lithe Spirit would nail Western Whirl for second by a nose. Possiblemente completed the 6 furlongs in 1:10.01and paid $10.90 to win. Bred in Kentucky by Charles Fipke and out of the stakes-winning Not Bourbon mare Internal Bourbon, Possiblemente is the first graded winner this season for Tale of Ekati, who stands the 2026 season at Darby Dan Farm near Lexington for a $5,000 fee. Holding a record of 10-7-4 from 32 starts, Possiblemente has earned $466,348.