Godolphin Racing
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Godolphin Racing Inc. operates Thoroughbred horse racing stables in Dubai and England. They take their name from the Godolphin Arabian.
The organisation, whose first full year of operation was in 1995, is based in both Dubai and Newmarket, United Kingdom, and was set up by Dubai's ruling family, the Maktoums, with Sheikh Mohammed the driving force behind the operation who also owns the Darley Stable.
Horses are wintered in Dubai then sent each April to Godolphin's Moulton Paddocks and its stables on Bury Road that is the former Stanley House, built in 1903 by Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby.
Godolphin registered its 100th Group One win with Sulamani in the 2003 Arlington Million.
The stable's main jockeys are Frankie Dettori, Kerrin McEvoy and Richard Hills. The main trainer is Saeed bin Suroor.
Godolphin operate the world’s greatest free-to-enter online horseracing competition, called Seven Stars.
Some of the horses owned by Godolphin include:
- Ramonti
- Balanchine
- Cape Verdi
- Daylami
- Discreet Cat
- Dubai Millennium
- Echo of Light
- Electrocutionist
- Fantastic Light
- Kayf Tara
- Kazzia
- Lammtarra
- Mark of Esteem
- Mutafaweq
- Refuse To Bend
- Sakhee
- Swain
- Tempera
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