While Godolphin’s Australian operation is undergoing a period of change, globally it was one of the most significant weekends in the Blue Army’s long history, including a long-awaited Kentucky Derby victory. Run The Numbers charts Godolphin’s extraordinary Group 1 record.
Before Saturday’s historic win by Sovereignty at Churchill Downs, Godolphin had had 13 Kentucky Derby runners without success. Essential Quality, third (fourth across the line) in 2021, came closest of those, but it had been one of the few global races which had avoided Sheikh Mohammed’s giant operation.
The Bill Mott-trained homebred swept past race favourite Journalism to record an emphatic and drought-breaking victory on Saturday, becoming Godolphin’s 445th Group 1/Grade 1 winner.
A few hours earlier, on the other side of the Atlantic, Godolphin’s Ruling Court, trained by Charlie Appleby, had delivered Group 1 win number 444 in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, in the process becoming the sixth winner in the all-blue of that Classic race, and third in four years.
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