The numbers are phenomenal.

In the four-day National Hunt festival for steeplechasers and hurdlers at Cheltenham Racecourse in the west of England from Tuesday through Friday, Irish trainer Willie Mullins may have as many as 50 runners in 27 races.

The Mullins team ranges from largely untested 4-year-olds in Friday’s two-mile Triumph Hurdle to the 11-year-old Hurricane Fly, who has won an astonishing 22 Grade 1 races from late 2008 through January this year.

Super Saturday was super at least for Godolphin and trainer Saeed bin Suroor, who swept the last three races on the program, including a win in the Group 1 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 with African Story, their 2014 Dubai World Cup winner.

African Story now is set to line up in the March 28 World Cup, something that seemed far from certain after the 8-year-old finished second in Round 2 of the Maktoum Challenge, his first start since his surprise score nearly a year ago in the World Cup and his first try on dirt.

Friday, Toast of New York, the runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita last November, has been declared from the Dubai World Cup, trainer Jamie Osborne said.

“Toast of New York has picked up a soft tissue injury and unfortunately won’t be able to run,” Osborne told the Racing Post of England.

Toast of New York was favored over California Chrome with British bookmakers to win the Dubai World Cup. Toast of New York is based in England and was being trained up to the Dubai World Cup.

The Group 1, $400,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 highlights the so-called Super Saturday card on Saturday evening at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai. And for whoever wins, victory is likely to be the highlight of their Dubai campaign in 2015.

The Al Maktoum Challenge is the last in a series of older-male dirt stakes at Meydan, and as the zenith of that trio of races, it functions just fine, but as a potential prep for the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 28, the race should prove lacking.

Godolphin’s two heavy favorites, Local Time in the UAE Oaks and Safety Check in the Zabeel Mile, both scored comfortable wins on the Thursday night card at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.

Safety Check, trained by Charlie Appleby and ridden  by William Buick, scored by one length over Dark Emerald in the Group 2, $250,000 Zabeel Mile, a one-turn turf race, and while not as visually impressive as his last-start score in the Al Fahidi Fort over about seven furlongs on turf, the win at this furlong-longer trip was solid enough.

A pair of group stakes with likely heavy favorites highlight Thursday’s seven-race card at Meydan in Dubai.

Local Time is 2 for 2 in her brief dirt career and will be an odds-on favorite to win her third race of the winter in the Group 3, $250,000 UAE Oaks, while Safety Check appears formidable in the Group 2, $250,000 Zabeel Mile.

The Meydan card starts at 9:45 a.m. Eastern, with the Oaks carded as race 3, post time 10:55, and the Zabeel Mile as race 6, post time 12:40 p.m.

Horses based in the U.S. that are being pointed to races in Britain will have to arrive in the country 10 days prior to the race and will be subjected to a new zero-tolerance policy on the use of anabolic steroids under new rules announced by the British Horseracing Authority on Tuesday.

Hunter’s Light is likely to make his third appearance on the Dubai World Cup program next month after winning his second consecutive race in Thursday’s $200,000 Dubai Millennium Stakes at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates.

Racing at about 1 1/4 miles on turf, Hunter’s Light stalked the pace to early stretch before taking the lead with a three-wide move under jockey James Doyle. Hunter’s Light was clear in the final furlong and won by 1 3/4 lengths over Umgiyo, a group stakes runner in South Africa last year.

Mr Pommeroy finished third of 10.

Hunter’s Light, a Group 1 winner in Dubai and Italy who was seventh in the 2014 Arlington Million at Arlington Park, leads a field of 10 in Thursday’s $200,000 Dubai Millennium Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.

Dirt milers were at the center of the action Thursday night at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, and the 3-year-olds in the Group 3, $250,000 UAE 2000 Guineas might have upstaged their elders in the Group 3, $200,000 Firebreak Stakes.

Maftool edged Mubtaahij in an exciting edition of the race, and the winner’s time of 1:37.69 for 1,600 meters (about one mile) compared favorably with the 1:37.45 that Tamarkuz clocked in winning the Firebreak by four lengths later on the card. The 5-year-old Tamarkuz ran the fastest 1,600 meters so far recorded on the new Meydan dirt track.