The international Godolphin operation enjoyed an outstanding day with multiple stakes winners on Saturday, highlighted by homebred Mystic Guide's dominant victory in the Group 1, $12 million Dubai World Cup. In a fitting note, Godolphin welcomed a new arrival earlier in the day, as that runner's dam, multiple Grade 1 winner Music Note, delivered a Medaglia d'Oro colt in Kentucky, just hours before her son's smashing performance.

Two-time Royal Ascot winner Caravaggio became the first Northern Hemisphere freshman sire of 2021 to record a winner, as his daughter Tenebrism won on debut at Naas in Ireland on Sunday.

Tenebrism, who is trained by Aidan O'Brien for Coolmore, Westerberg, and Merriebelle Stables, won by 3 3/4 lengths going five furlongs on the turf. The filly is out of the British champion and multiple Group 1 winner Immortal Verse.

Liam's Map, one of the accomplished runners in a stellar class of third-crop sires, showcased his versatility with a fantastic Saturday of three stakes winners at Gulfsteam Park.

The stallion's daughter Crazy Beautiful punched her ticket to the Kentucky Oaks with a breakthrough victory in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks.

Elsewhere on the card, Churn N Burn won the Grade 2 Pan American Stakes at 1 1/2 miles on turf, and Basin took the Sir Shackleton Stakes at seven furlongs on dirt.

Greatest Honour

Tapit – Tiffany’s Honour, by Street Cry

Bred in Kentucky by Courtlandt Farm

Greatest Honour, who is seeking his third consecutive graded stakes win at Gulfstream Park in Saturday’s Grade 1 Florida Derby, has established himself as a standout contender for the Kentucky Derby. He has a pedigree suited to the 1 1/4-mile Derby – but perhaps even more tailor-made for the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes.

Larry Best, who buys, breeds, and races as OXO Equine, has been a Thoroughbred owner since 2017. In less than five years, he has raced a bevy of graded stakes winners, and is now drawing a bead on the Kentucky Oaks with one of those. He also will have a rooting interest in the Kentucky Derby, thanks to the progress of his broodmare band.

A quarter-century ago, America’s reigning Horse of the Year, Cigar, shipped halfway around the globe for a game victory in the then-$4 million Dubai World Cup, granting instant credibility to the race inaugurated in 1996.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Robert “Gus” Koch, the manager of Claiborne Farm during a golden age for the farm’s stallion business who commanded respect throughout Central Kentucky, died on Saturday at his home in Paris, Ky., of complications from cancer, according to his family. Koch was 74.

Hot Rod Charlie

Oxbow–Indian Miss, by Indian Charlie

Bred in Kentucky by Edward A. Cox Jr. ($17,000 Fasig-Tipton February short yearling purchase by Erickson Equine; $110,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling purchase by Dennis O’Neill)

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Amid a logjam atop the leaderboard at the under-tack preview show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. March sale of 2-year-olds in training, reigning leading sire Into Mischief and his son Practical Joke emerged as stallions to watch at the year's juvenile market opener.

Caddo River

Hard Spun – Pangburn, by Congrats

Bred in Kentucky by Shortleaf Stable

Caddo River, who is continuing along Oaklawn Park’s Kentucky Derby prep series, comes from a family with a history of success. Both his sire and dam were hard-knocking racehorses, and there is proven two-turn ability on both those sides of the family.