Godolphin add four more to their team
Godolphin have added to their powerful squad for 2005 with Group winners Satchem and Dubai Surprise, Listed scorer Queen Of Poland and the promising Subpoena joining the team.
Sheikh Mohammed purchased Satchem, who was victorious in the Sirenia Stakes at Kempton for Clive Brittain, from his son Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed.
The Inchinor colt had previously won two minor events for David Loder and rounded off his juvenile season with a fourth to Ad Valorem in Newmarket’s Middle Park Stakes.
Tom Queally, who partnered Satchem on both of his successes for Loder, said: “Satchem is a genuine horse who tries very hard and wants to please you. He sticks his head out and is a Group Three winner so I’d imagine he’ll be a nice horse this year.
“He’s a very straightforward horse who will probably get a mile plus – he might get a mile and two furlongs as he’s a very relaxed animal.”
Loder also trained the fillies Dubai Surprise and Queen Of Poland last term, and they have been reunited with their former stable companion at Al Quoz Stables in Dubai to begin their three-year-old careers.
The former won Goodwood’s Prestige Stakes in August before finishing runner-up to Helios Quercus in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.
Queen Of Poland, who used to carry Sheikh Mohammed’s maroon and white silks, won the Star Stakes at Sandown before finding only Playful Act too good in the May Hill Stakes at Doncaster.
On her final start she was far from disgraced when sixth behind the top-class Divine Proportions in the Prix Marcel Boussac on Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe day.
Loder’s assistant Ricky Bowman said: “Both are nice fillies and we’re hoping that they’re going to be good in the future – they could be exciting prospects.
“Dubai Surprise is a big, scopey filly and she could be anything. She goes very well on soft ground but I think she’ll go on any ground.
“She ran a bit disappointingly in the Fillies’ Mile at Ascot, but she was ridden on the pace which didn’t really suit her. I would say that she’ll get anything up to a mile and a half.
“Queen Of Poland is a bit on the small side but she’s a good, tough and very consistent filly and I am sure that she’ll win races.
“It’s possible that she would get 10 furlongs. She might have had one or two hard races and I think her race in France was just at the wrong time of year because she’d been on the go quite a long time.”
Sheikh Mohammed has also transferred Subpoena, formerly trained by Michael Jarvis, to Godolphin.
The twice-raced Diktat colt won a York maiden before disappointing when favourite for the Group Three Somerville Tattersall Stakes at Newmarket.
