Beiwacht adds more gloss to fantastic season in All Aged Stakes

Beiwacht continued a sensational campaign for Godolphin’s three-year-olds in Australia with an emphatic all-the-way success in the G1 All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

The Bivouac colt added to his previous top-level win in September’s Golder Rose as he readily accounted for a field of established older stars, becoming the ninth three-year-old to win the race since 1995 in the process.

Godolphin’s Classic generation have now won nine G1 races this season, with Green Spaces, Observer, Tempted, Tentyris and Attica also forming part of an extraordinary group of horses.

While Beiwacht could yet race on at four, two of Godolphin’s banner three-year-olds have been retired to take up stallion duties, with Tentyris and Observer joining the Darley roster for the 2026 breeding season.

Tentyris produced a stunning display when taking the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes in a race record time and the son of Street Boss followed up with success in the G1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes, becoming just the fourth three-year-old colt to win the race in the last 25 years.

Observer retires after securing four Group-race wins at distances between seven furlongs and a mile and a half, including G1 victories in the Australian Guineas and Victoria Derby. He becomes the highest-profile son of Ghaiyyath to take up stud duties.

Three-time G1 winner Frosted sadly passed away on Tuesday as he succumbed to an acute episode of laminitis at Jonabell Farm. His finest hour came in the 2016 Met Mile, in which he stormed to a remarkable 14- and-a-quarter-length victory and posted the highest-ever Beyer Speed Figure over a mile of 123 – a mark that still stands to this day.

Frosted went on to enjoy a successful career as a sire and his impact could be seen on the day of his passing, with his son Dragon Welds winning the Jpn G3 Tokyo Sprint in Japan.

Sovereignty put up a strong performance on his first appearance since the Travers Stakes as he finished second to White Abarrio in the G2 Oaklawn Handicap on Saturday. North America’s Horse of the Year ended up making the running and was conceding weight to all five rivals, while the winner had the benefit of a run under his belt this year.

Having been forced to miss last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic with a fever, all roads lead back to the US$7m contest in late October, which will take place at Keeneland. Potential targets in the interim include the Stephen Foster Stakes, Whitney Stakes and Jockey Club Gold Cup.

Newmarket’s Craven meeting has become an informative fixture for Godolphin’s UK three-year-old crop in recent years, and Hassaleh, Maho Bay, Talk Of New York and Cerro Blanco all look set for bright campaigns following their victories at the three-day fixture.

Avicenna could return for the 2,000 Guineas following his staying-on second in the G3 Craven Stakes, while Distant Storm and King’s Trail are also on track for the first Classic of the season after pleasing in racecourse gallops on the Rowley Mile.