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 late Speightstown out of the stakes-winning Medaglia d'Oro mare Hallie Belle.
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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 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.
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This story will be updated with a recap of the Jacques Cartier Stakes (G3) from Woodbine.
