While Whitebeam readily justified odds-on favoritism in the $100,000 Gallorette (G3), the 15.20-1 Never Explain crashed the $200,000 Dinner Party (G3) in course-record time at Pimlico.

Chad Brown knew that he was poised to win the Saratoga feature for the fourth year in a row. Less clear was which of his runners would do the honors.

Not even getting clobbered at the start of Sunday’s Natalma S. (G1) could prevent Godolphin’s homebred Wild Beauty from establishing her superiority, and punching her ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1).