Newmarket, Great Britain – “Awesome, Awesome, Awesome,” said William Buick, after galloping with Desert Flower, beyond the profit post.
When the good jubilation on Friday evening in Churchill Downs slipped through the slop, only a few would have predicted how many more cheers for the global Godolphin team in the Kentucky Down and the cold Suffolk sunshine should come.
A classic double double, the width of which has certainly not yet been seen, despite the extraordinary achievements of some of the regular rivals of Godolphin among the huge operations of the owner break. Two Homebred winners of the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby and a home 1,000 Guineas Victrix to complete the quartet.
Brad Cox and Bill Mott held the American half of the bargain, and Charlie Appleby, who won his first 1,000 Guineas on Sunday, after he had won his third victory in the corresponding Colts' Classic 24 hours earlier.
He joked with Press Pack: “I called the American team last night and said:” Thank you for “putting on the pressure on”.
But Appleby never really sees pressure. With a considerable Godolphin wing around him as well as his wife Aisling and the children Erin, Emily, Edith and Sean, he has enough support to organize a hell of a party if things go right and share frustration if they do not. This weekend everything and Buicks went away, including a basic victory in the only other group race on Newmarkets Sunday map with Cinderella's dream in the Dahlia Stakes.
After the glorious days of the nineties, when Godolphin's more selected team occupied some of the largest international prizes, frustration came for a few years. AppleBy was there for these years and will have felt the deep stalls when he moved into an influencing position. His success in the past decade has not changed him, and that could say that in the results he now enjoys. He is the team captain, but still very part of this team.
Nowadays, when Sheikh Mohammed is publicly seen in Great Britain, it is likely that it is annual sale and not on the race track, but it was not far from the thoughts of some of his most high -ranking and trustworthy allies. Diana Cooper, a long -time member of the Godolphin team through the ebb and the flow of goods days and bad, was almost tears when she watched The presentation pantel with representatives of the operation.
“The thing is that everyone who works at Godolphin who does Mohammed for Sheikh,” she said.
Liam O'Rourke, director of stallion, stallion and breeding at Darleys Dalham Hall Stud, was pleased to observe the stut foal in the circle of the winner, whose cleaning bodies promised so much more. Desert Flower is out of the homest promising run, the best day of which came on Rowley Mile at the win of the Rockfel Stakes and which throws another line as a daughter of Difficult Spun about the Atlantic, which has spent his entire tunnel career on the Darley squad.
“It is a complete life change in terms of achievements,” said O'Rourke when he summarized the Fab Four.
“Sheikh Mohammed supported our business so brilliantly, but what it has achieved and helped us in the last 48 hours is quite extraordinary.
“With two Homebred -Classical winners on consecutive days in the USA and then the classic here yesterday and then a Homebred classic here now. I mean, it is what you dream and then wake up and pinch yourself.
It is equally crucial that 20 years after Dubawi had become the only classic winner of Dubai Millennium, who came to the fore as some of his stallion sons. Desert Flower's Vaternacht is currently in the avant -garde, with a damn heated father of third place, who places his own challenge over the hemisphere. Dubawi himself was responsible for the fourth -placed Elwateen, who only organized a great race at the second start of her life and ensured that Saaeed bin Suroor won the fourth prize in both Guinen.
O'Rourke added Night of Thunder's first classical success: “He is still a adolescent stallion who was a Guineas winner here, and we have a fabulous boy from him that we can look forward to for the future. It is currently very invigorating and it is extremely satisfactory, especially for all stud employees who are the shining of the day.”
Also for Ollie Sangster, a trainer who has not wasted time to make a name for himself, and who in a bold attempt to annoy his runner flight and to take second and third place to fight with 33/1 and 28/1.
“I don't know if I should be content or disappointed – we were so close – but if someone had offered me, I would have bitten their hand this morning,” said Sangster.
He will be back to try again, but this weekend the Rowley Mile Appleby, Buick and the team in the Royal Blue belonged.
