For the fifth consecutive 12 months, Sheikh Mohammed’s breeding and racing operation Godolphin has topped the North American standings for breeders as people and amongst people with partnerships.
Godolphin has regularly raised the bar with every successive title it is earned, setting a brand new excessive in 2025 with complete earnings at $27,288,066. When horses bred in partnership are thought-about, Godolphin’s complete earnings rise to $28,590,307, based on statistics managed by TJC Improvements.
A complete of 22 black-type winners have been bred by Godolphin, together with 12 graded stakes winners that visited the winner’s circle sporting the racing secure’s distinctive blue silks. As anticipated, Godolphin can also be listed among the many finalists within the Eclipse Award classes of excellent breeder and excellent proprietor. Godolphin has been acknowledged with each titles for the previous 4 years and was additionally named excellent proprietor in 2020.
“It’s for us at Godolphin it is a realization of all of the work that has been put down for years to get to the stage the place you’re nominated as an proprietor or breeder,” Michael Banahan, Godolphin USA’s director of bloodstock, stated on the Jan. 5 version of the BloodHorse Monday podcast. “It’s not one horse that’s carrying you there; it’s a collective of the secure that is doing that and a collective of how properly the trainers are doing for you. All of the folks on the farm that get us there, getting the horses in pretty much as good a form as doable from foaling them out to elevating them as yearlings. … To find a way do with successive years is one thing we’re very happy with … and so necessary to us.”
As a lot as Godolphin has achieved internationally, the 2025 racing 12 months nonetheless reached new milestones. Godolphin celebrated its first Kentucky Derby (G1) with Sovereignty , who went on to win the Belmont Stakes (G1) and Travers Stakes (G1). The celebration at Churchill Downs truly began Friday when Godolphin homebred Good Cheer captured the Kentucky Oaks (G1), giving the secure its second victory on this prestigious race for sophomore fillies. Fairly Mischievous captured the primary Oaks for Godolphin in 2023.Join BloodHorse Each day
Different homebred graded stakes winners embrace Notable Speech , who gained the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T), and Insurgent’s Romance , who gained the Joe Hirsch Turf Basic Stakes (G1T), together with Bella Ballerina , East Avenue , First Mission  , Knightsbridge , Pondering , Ragtime , Suppose Huge , and Verity .
Total, Godolphin-bred runners gained 218 races out of 1,294 begins, a win price of 17%. Amongst horses bred with companions, Godolphin gained 263 races from 1,598 begins.
The late Brereton C. Jones ranked second among the many main particular person breeders with $11,552,109 in earnings and 226 wins out of 1,494 begins.
WinStar Farm ranked second amongst breeders with companions with $13,185,006 in earnings and 246 wins out of 1,530 begins.
Rounding out the highest 10 particular person breeders are:
WinStar Farm, $11,428,977 (188 wins/1,201 begins)
Don Alberto, $10,959,009 (132/782)
Calumet Farm, $10,569,545 (300/2,187)
Spendthrift Farm, $7,796,784, (144/823)
Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, $6,620,664 (118/789)
Gary & Mary West Stables, $5,747,255 (133/754)
Juddmonte, $5,532,656 (47/249)
Dixiana Farms, $5,174,892 (70/517)
Finishing the record of the highest 10 breeders together with partnerships have been:
Brereton C. Jones, $11,803,757 (235 wins/1,567 begins)
Don Alberto, $11,395,309 (137/844)
Calumet Farm, $10,638,647 (301/2,232)
Spendthrift Farm, $7,800,487 (144/825)
Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, $6,958,891 (126/821)
Fred W. Hertrich III, $6,939,154 (139/1,067)
Machmer Corridor, $6,013,472 (159/1,033)
Gary & Mary West Stables, $5,747,255 (133/754)
