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.