By Jeff Lowe

Hill ‘n’ Dale Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) winner Discreet Cat and Nashua Stakes (G3) winner Day Pass are scheduled to travel from Florida on Friday night to join Godolphin Racing’s winter base in Dubai.

Day Pass worked three furlongs in :39 on Thursday at Payson Park, where he and Discreet Cat have spent 30 days in quarantine for the trip.

Rick Mettee, the American-based assistant to Godolphin trainer Saeed bin Suroor, said recent purchases Quebec Citizen (Brz) and Zada Belle also would be on the flight.

Quebec Citizen finished second in the Pomona Derby on September 23 at Fairplex Park in his final start for previous owners Lemalu Stable and L-Bo Racing. The Known Heights colt will officially turn four on Monday, but he will remain eligible for the $2-million United Arab Emirates Derby (UAE-G2) because he was bred on Southern Hemisphere time.
 
Zada Belle, a two-year-old filly by Indian Charlie, won her lone start by nine lengths on October 13 during the Oak Tree at Santa Anita Park meeting for owner William Peeples and trainer Adam Kitchingman.
 
Mettee said Godolphin plans to send another group of horses from Florida to Dubai in early February. That contingent would probably include Minefield, the two-year-old Silver Deputy colt whom Godolphin purchased earlier this month.

Jeff Lowe is a staff writer for THOROUGHBRED TIMES