First category victories crown a special weekend on the world stage

Godolphin achieved significant international success last weekend (Saturday and Sunday, 28 and 29 September), with the production horses of Darley stallions winning three first-class races on three different continents within 24 hours.

The three-year-old advanced Bivouac launched the kickoff from Australia with James Cummings winning bridges at the Golden Rose G1 at Rosehill.

The son of Oxide & Excel has shown a strong determination to advance against Yess Yess Yess and score his first top-level win. Bivouac's Godolphin's third win at Golden Rose in recent years following Exposure in 2015 and Astern in 2016, and may now be targeting the world's richest grass race with his A $ 14 million prize The Everest, Randwick, Saturday 19 October.

Shamardal's son, Earth Light, won his second win in the first category when he succeeded in rewriting the record time of two horses by winning a neck in the six-furlong high race of emerging horses in Europe, The Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, UK.

The Darley Pri Morny G1 winner has not lost in five appearances under Andre Fabre, and has become one of the leading candidates for the 2000 Guinness race next year, along with another special dowry belonging to the stallion Schmurdel, Pinatubo.

Excitingly in the Tower of London, the horse continued his impressive performance and went on to win the first category in Japan with a high performance at the Sprinters Stakes in Nakayama - a race won by Godolphin and Fine Needle in 2018.

Kazuo Fujisawa's rival Passion will remain in training next year and may target ambitious international races in the coming months. The four-year horse is being considered for the Predres Cup Turf Sprint G1 in Santa Anita, United States, in November.