Thus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow expressed the feelings of joy and youthful exuberance in his poem “A Day of Sunshine,” and the unbeaten 2-year-old colt named Henry Longfellow caught a ray of sunshine and certainly showed his own enthusiasm for racing with a comfortable victory by two lengths in the Group 2 Futurity Stakes at the Curragh on Aug. 19. A month earlier, the bay son of Dubawi (by Dubai Millennium) had won his debut over the same seven-furlong trip.
There were a trio of classics over the past weekend: at Epsom, the Oaks on June 3 and the Derby on June 4, then the next day at Chantilly, the Prix du Jockey Club. Those might as well have been held as benefits for the great stallion Galileo (by Sadler’s Wells).