Another 2-year-old for Dubai

Vineyard Haven, the 2-year-old who won a pair of Grade I stakes in New York, has been bought by the Maktoum family's Godolphin Racing, the Daily Racing Form and The Blood-Horse report. Vineyard Haven had been owned by trainer Bobby Frankel in a partnership that included Dodgers manager Joe Torre.

This comes on the heels of Midshipman winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile a month after being purchased by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum's Darley Stable. Bob Baffert has been training Midshipman, but the three-time Kentucky Derby-winner said at the Breeders' Cup that the colt might be taken away and prepared in Dubai for the Triple Crown races.

You thought the Maktoums couldn't get any more powerful in horse racing? In their attempt to win a Kentucky Derby, now they have aquired the two most prominent 2-year-old males in the United States.