Godolphin Australia Pty Ltd

Godolphin Australia Pty Ltd


Darley is HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's global breeding operation which currently stands stallions in six countries around the world.

In 2003, Darley purchased Kelvinside Stud from well-known breeder and former jockey Hilton Cope. The property has been developed into a world-class facility with the capacity to stand 18 stallions.

In order to accommodate Darley's ever rapidly growing business, another property was purchased in 2006, this time at Seymour in Victoria. Known as Northwood Park, the farm is a historic horse and cattle property and is able to accommodate a further 12 stallions.

Heading up the 2009 roster are two of the world’s hottest young stallions, Street Cry and Exceed And Excel. Sire of G1 winners from each of his first three crops including eight from his first two, Street Cry’s Australian runners are highlighted by Australia’s highest-rated three-year-old and outstanding G1 Caulfield Guineas winner Whobegotyou and G1 colt Predatory Pricer. Sensational Australian sprinter Exceed And Excel was last year’s Champion first season sire and is also sire of G1 Blue Diamond winner Reward For Effort from his second crop. Both stallions will stand this season at Darley’s Kelvinside stud at Aberdeen in NSW.

Darley’s roster will be bolstered once again in 2009 with the addition of six first-season stallions. New Approach, European Champion two-year-old, multiple G1-winning three-year-old and the world’s highest rated racehorse of 2008, will head the new stallions and stand at Darley’s Northwood Park in Victoria. Joining the shuttle is G1-winning two-year-old and  the best three-year-old in the world in 2007, Authorized; European Champion juvenile and dual G1 winner Teofilo who retired with his unbeaten record intact; Street Boss, America’s multiple record-breaking and multiple G1 winning speed horse by Street Cry; Europe’s Champion first-season sire of 2008, Kheleyf; and Musket, Makybe Diva’s G2-winning three-quarter brother by Redoute’s Choice. 

World Champion three-year-old Bernardini will serve his second Australian book in the upcoming season and will be once again joined by another World Champion in multiple G1-winning sprinter Henny Hughes together with three of America's best three-year-olds in 2007, Street Sense, Any Given Saturday and Hard Spun.

Also standing his second season is Shaft, who was a brilliant two-year-old, making such an impression on his racecourse debut when winning the Silver Slipper.

Adding to the diverse roster are multiple G1 winners Dubawi, Shamardal and Tiger Hill; Danehill's impeccably-bred son Gonski, Blue Diamond winner Nadeem and Zabeel's unbeaten dual G1-winning son Reset.

Following Sheikh Mohammed's acquistion in 2008 of Woodlands Stud, Darley is proud to be standing 11-time G1 winner Lonhro, alongside an impressive line-up that comprises Strategic, Quest For Fame, Domesday, Commands, Canny Lad and Ad Valorem.

In addition to standing stallions, Darley also manages the racing interests of Sheikh Mohammed and various members of the Maktoum family, and has racehorses with various trainers in the UK, Ireland, France, the United States, Australia and Japan. The best of these horses will transfer to Godolphin, to race in the famous blue silks that have been carried to victory in numerous G1 races across the globe.

 

Sheikh Mohammed

Born in 1949, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, the second-largest of seven states that make up the United Arab Emirates. 

Sheikh Mohammed studied in Cambridge as a young man and it was then that he attended his first horse race - watching Royal Palace win the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket with his older brother Sheikh Hamdan.

Ten years later, Hatta became the first winning racehorse owned by Sheikh Mohammed. Since then, Sheikh Mohammed's horses have since won almost every major race in the world, running in both his maroon and white colours and the famous blue colours of Godolphin, the globetrotting racing stable he set up in 1994.

In 1996, he founded the Dubai World Cup - the world's richest horse race - designed to encourage other owners to bring their horses to Dubai to compete for millions of dollars in prizemoney.

The Dubai World Cup was also created to attract visitors to Dubai and thousands of people now travel there every year for a holiday or to use one of the many business centres that have been built there in the past few years.

As well as being a racehorse owner, Sheikh Mohammed is himself an expert horseman and has won many endurance races. 

 

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Contacts for Darley Australia

 

Kelvinside

Rouchel Road
ABERDEEN
New South Wales
2336
Australia

Tel: +61 (0)2 6543 9000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6543 9001
Email: nsw@darley.com.au
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Northwood Park

Northwood Road
SEYMOUR
Victoria
3660
Australia

Tel: + 61 (0)3 5799 9000
Fax: + 61 (0)3 5799 9001
Email: vic@darley.com.au
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Twin Hills

Dirnaseer Road
COOTAMUNDRA
New South Wales
2590
Australia

Tel: +61 (0)2 6942 2268
Fax: +61 (0)2 6942 3748
Email: nsw@darley.com.au
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Woodlands

3933 Golden Highway
DENMAN
New South Wales
2328
Australia

Tel: +61 (0)2 6547 3000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6547 3001
Email: nsw@darley.com.au
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Henry Plumptre

Managing Director

Tel: +61 (0)2 9362 2600
Fax: +61 (0)2 9362 2601
Email: hplumptre@darley.com.au
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Alastair-Pulford
Alastair Pulford

Nominations Manager

Tel: +61 (0)2 6543 9000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6543 9001
Mob: +61 (0)410 683461
Email: apulford@darley.com.au
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Andy Makiv

Victorian Nominations Manager

Tel: +61 (0)3 5799 9000
Fax: +61 (0)3 5799 9001
Mob: +61 (0)419 132 048
Email: amakiv@darley.com.au
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Aaron-Bott
Aaron Bott

Nominations

Tel: +61 (0)2 6543 9000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6543 9001
Mob: +61 (0)409 550112
Email: abott@darley.com.au
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Stuart-Doughty
Stuart Doughty

Nominations

Tel: +61 (0)2 6543 9000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6543 9001
Mob: +61 (0)409 075604
Email: sdoughty@darley.com.au
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Sally Gordon

Nominations

Tel: +61 (0)2 6543 9000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6543 9001
Mob: +61 (0) 421 080 021
Email: sgordon@darley.com.au
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Catriona Mackay
Catriona Murphy

Nominations

Tel: +61 (0)2 6543 9000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6543 9001
Mob: +61 (0)409 369 965
Email: cmurphy@darley.com.au
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Adam Brayshaw

Nominations

Tel: +61 (0)3 5799 9000
Fax: +61 (0)3 5799 9001
Mob: +61 (0)447 441105
Email: abrayshaw@darley.com.au
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Jasen Bennett

Nominations

Tel: +61 (0)2 6942 2268
Fax: +61 (0)2 6942 3748
Mob: +61 (0)439 447367
Email: jbennett@darley.com.au
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John-Sunderland
John Sunderland

General Manager, Woodlands

Tel: +61 (0)2 6547 3000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6547 3001
Mob: +61 (0)427 437455
Email: jsunderland@darley.com.au
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Andrew Perryman

Stud Manager, Woodlands

Tel: +61 (0)2 6547 3000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6547 3001
Mob: +61 (0) 401 449 408
Email: aperryman@darley.com.au
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Barley Ward-Thomas

Stud Manager, Kelvinside

Tel: +61 (0)2 6543 9000
Fax: +61 (0)2 6543 9001
Mob: +61 (0)412 291 949
Email: bward-thomas@darley.com.au
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Matt Hill

Stud Manager, Northwood Park

Tel: +61 (0)3 5799 9000
Fax: +61 (0)3 5799 9001
Mob: +61 (0) 421 628 468
Email: mhill@darley.com.au
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Steve Brien

Stud Manager, Twin Hills

Tel: +61 (0)2 6942 2268
Fax: +61 (0)2 6942 3748
Mob: +61 (0) 427 423 805
Email: sbrien@darley.com.au
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