Outstanding successes at the end of the Spring Festival frame a successful season in Australia

The impressive performance of Godolphin Stables on the closing day of the Australian Urban Spring Festival reaffirmed the team's position as one of the country's leading racing stables, with a platform for a better performance in 2020.

The Godolphin logo was carried to the podium in three of the races on Saturday (November 16th), taking the spring-to-season victories to 20 wins in the category and list races.

On a day of successes spreading to two provinces, he also saw a notable win in the first edition of the unclassified $ 1 million race The Hunter by the Persian Savatiano.

The results of the spring races put James Cummings' lead stable in second place in Australia in terms of winning races directly behind giant Chris Waller's stables, which involved nearly twice the number of Godolphin horses.

Since the start of this season's seeded races on Saturday (August 10th), Cummings has won three horses in category I races: Avelias, Bivouac and Fleet, four in the second, six in the third and six Listed races.

Australia's other Godolphin coach Anthony Friedman added "Hanseatic" to that group by winning the Mearson Cooper Stakes in Sandown.

With more than 50 other seeded races, including three Class A races remaining in Australia before the end of 2019, Godolphin numbers are set to rise along with the total prize money, now over A $ 11 million obtained in just over a year. Four months of racing.

If there is a performance we have seen so far this season, it is for Bivouac.

He won the Golden Rose G1 at Rosehill in September, and he also performed in the preparations for the Golden Rose race that same month at the Fin Stakes G3 in Caulfield in mid-August.

Formerly trained in France, Afelias returned to his third Australian season to win the George Main Stakes G1 in Randwick on September 21, while Fleet gave a brave performance that ensured her victory in the final step of the Thousand Guinness G1 race in Caulfield on October 12.

The first months of the 2019-2020 season also saw the retirement of Godolphin, the best in winning races and inspiring the entire Australian stables, Hartnell.

Hartnell began his career at the Junior Race in York in July 2013 and completed his 58th race with a third place finish at the McKinnon Stakes G1 in Flamington on Saturday, November 9.

Between the two dates, he won 13 races and finished in 23 races, including the Cox Plate G1, the Melbourne Cup G1 and earned nearly A $ 7.5 million.

Godolphin's efforts in Australia have lifted Godolphin's overall toll in world-class races this year to 148 wins, 27 of which are in the first category.