Godolphin Stable Lessee
$3,410,000
2017 earnings
33%
2017 wins
$3,410,000
lifetime earnings
racing Record
2017 Stats
Career Stats
Loading
2
Firsts
2
1
Seconds
1
0
Thirds
0
3
Unplaced
3
6
Starts
6
$3,410,000
Earnings
$3,410,000
$568,333
Earnings / Start
$568,333
Loading
Bio
Formed in 1994, Godolphin is the international division composed of the top horses owned by members of Dubai's royal family. Godolphin has won more than 240 Grade 1 or Group 1 races in 12 countries. Dubai-born Saeed bin Suroor became the head trainer for Sheikh Mohammed in 1995 and several other trainers worked for the operation through the years. For seven years, Rick Mettee was bin Suroor's assistant in charge of the U.S.-based runners.
Formed in 1994, Godolphin is the international division composed of the top horses owned by members of Dubai's royal family. Godolphin has won more than 240 Grade 1 or Group 1 races in 12 countries. Dubai-born Saeed bin Suroor became the head trainer for Sheikh Mohammed in 1995 and several other trainers worked for the operation through the years. For seven years, Rick Mettee was bin Suroor's assistant in charge of the U.S.-based runners.
In November 2011, Godolphin announced that it was closing its U.S. division and that its runners would remain in the care of trainers who have horses for Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud, Kiaran McLaughlin, Eoin Harty and Tom Albertrani. Led by Seventh Street, Music Note, Flashing, Gayego and Pyro, a group that won a total of nine Grade 1 races, Godolphin earned its first Eclipse Award as the outstanding owner in North America in 2009. Godolphin added a second Eclipse Award as outstanding owner in 2012.
Godolphin won Breeders’ Cup races with Outstrip (Juvenile Turf, 2013), Vale of York (Juvenile 2009), Tempera (Juvenile Fillies, 2001), Fantastic Light (Turf, 2001), and Daylami (Turf, 1999). Pebbles and In the Wings won the Breeders’ Cup Turf in 1985 and 1990 for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, and Sheikh Mohammed won the Juvenile in partnership with Allen Paulson with Arazi in 1991 and the Mile with Barathea in 1994 in partnership with Gerald Leigh.
In addition to Saeed bin Suroor, Charlie Appleby and John O'Shea also currently train for Godolphin.
Shekh Mohammed has won the Dubai World Cup eight times, most recently with Prince Bishop in 2015.
In 2015 Godolphin won a pair of Grade 1 races with Wedding Toast as well as the Grade 1 Wood Memorial with Frosted. Frosted went on to finish fourth in the Kentucky Derby and second in the Belmont Stakes behind Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.
In 2017, Godolphin's Thunder Snow won the United Arab Emirates Derby to secure a berth in the Kentucky Derby starting gate. Shekh Mohammed's lone success in the U.S. Triple Crown was a victory with Darley homebred Bernardini in the 2006 Preakness Stakes. Godolphin added a pair of wins in 2017 at the Breeders' Cup when Wuheida struck in the Breeders' Cup Mile and Talismanic won the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf.
