at Longchamp, for which the leading fancies were the Prix Morny winner Bad As I Wanna Be and the Railway Stakes winner Honours List. Settled in third by Craig Williams, Tobougg was moved up to take the lead a furlong out and pulled clear to win by two lengths despite being eased down in the closing stages. Mick Channon, who watched the race on television from home after forgetting his passport called Tobougg a colt of the "highest quality" while adding that he had a "quirky temperament". After the race Tobougg's price for the Guineas contracted to 10/1, and speculation began that he would be removed from Channon's stable to join Godolphin. On his final start of the season, Tobougg was sent to Newmarket for Britain's most prestigious two-year-old race, the Dewhurst Stakes. Sent off the 7/4 favourite Tobougg raced prominently before moving into the lead two furlongs out and winning "comfortably" by one and a quarter lengths from Noverre. The Independent called it a "smooth performance" while pointing out that the field may have been below the usual standard. The bookmakers responded by cutting him to 8/1 for the Guineas. Before the end of the season, Tobougg's ownership, as had been predicted, was transferred to the Maktoum family's Godolphin Racing operation and he was moved to the stable of Saeed bin Suroor, spending the winters in Dubai before being moved back to Britain during the Summer. 2001: three-year-old season On returning from Dubai, Tobougg was sent straight to the 2000 Guineas without running in a trial race. He was the chosen ride of Godolphin's stable jockey Frankie Dettori despite the fact that he had been beaten by his stable companion Rumpold in a private trial race in Dubai. Dettori rode the colt in all but one of his subsequent races. He was made 4/1 favourite in a field of eighteen, but after racing prominently he made little impact in the closing stages and lost his unbeaten record, finishing eighth behind Golan. The Godolphin team were unable to explain his "dismal" performance. A month later, Tobougg was moved up to a mile and a half for The Derby and ran creditably, finishing strongly to take third place behind Galileo and Golan. At Sandown in July he finished fourth as 9/4 favourite for the Eclipse Stakes, beaten less than a length behind Medicean. Dettori reported that the colt "hated" the firm