For the fourth consecutive yr, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s highly effective Godolphin racing secure completed 2024 because the main North Amrican breeder by earnings.
Remarkably the worldwide breeding and racing operation has exceeded the already stout accomplishments it achieved because the main breeder through the 2021-23 racing seasons. Final yr, Godolphin-bred runners banked $23,205,149 in earnings and included 23 particular person black-type winners. Nineteen of the 23 stakes winners gained a graded stakes.
The standard of Godolphin’s breeding program has clearly allowed it to keep up such a dominant place in North American racing. As a person breeder, Godolphin was represented by 41 graded/group winners worldwide and of those 34 had been campaigned as homebreds.
In North America, Godolphin raced eight grade 1 winners, of which three have been named as a finalist for Eclipse champion honors. Cinderella’s Dream has been named a finalist for 3-year-old filly and turf feminine honors, Immersive has been named a finalist for 2-year-old filly champion honors, and Insurgent’s Romance is a finalist for turf male honors.
Cinderella’s Dream, a daughter of Shamardal, began the yr racing in Dubai and was shipped to the USA in late spring. She instantly made an influence by successful the Fasig-Tipton Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes and Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes back-to-back and ended the yr with a runner-up effort within the Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar by half a size to Moira.
Immersive appears assured a championship title after capturing three Grade 1 wins throughout her undefeated marketing campaign of 4 races. She gained the Spinaway Stakes, Darley Alcibiades Stakes, and capped the yr off with a 4 ½-length romp within the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Immersive is by Darley Stallions’ Nyquist, who loved a powerful yr general with 115 winners that included six graded stakes winners. The filly’s 3-year-old marketing campaign can be delayed as she recovers from bone bruising.
Insurgent’s Romance, a now 7-year-old gelded son of Godolphin’s main European sire Dubawi, continued to be the mannequin of consistency in 2024. He made six begins and by no means raced in any jurisdiction twice, having made begins in Dubai, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Qatar, and the U.S. His worst efficiency was a 3rd within the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot however in any other case he rang the bell each time. Insurgent’s Romance sweetened his sterling performances final yr by capturing his second Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf victory at Del Mar. He gained his first Breeders’ Cup Turf in 2022 at Keeneland.
When particular person breeders and their companions are thought-about, Godolphin ended 2024 with $25,912,067 in earnings and was represented by 26 black-type winners. Brad Kelley’s Calumet Farm completed in second on the main breeders record by people and with companions. Runners bred by Calumet alone earned greater than $13.9 million and included 13 black-type winners.
The late Brereton C. Jones, founding father of Airdrie Stud, ranks third among the many main particular person breeders with greater than $11 million in earnings and 19 black-type winners. Contemplating people and companions, Kenny Troutt’s WinStar Farm takes the third-leading spot with greater than $12.2 million in earnings and 11 black-type winners.
