Godolphin 2025–26: The Numbers Behind Australia's Blue Army

Note: All percentages are calculated on a distinct horse basis, individual winners as a proportion of individual horses raced. This measures squad depth and quality rather than raw start frequency.

If there is one defining force in Australian racing this season, it is Godolphin. The operation, trained by a hand-picked team of Australia's leading conditioners across Sydney and Melbourne, has been in imperious form since the season opened in August 2025, with 61 individual horses winning from 142 campaigned: a winners-to-runners ratio of 43%.

That headline figure, nearly one in every two horses winning at least once, speaks to the extraordinary depth of the Godolphin squad. But it is at the elite end of the program where the story becomes truly remarkable, with 57% of their Group 1 runners tasting victory at the highest level.

The numbers in full

Breakdown by race category

Group wins race by race

The 4yo cohort: a generation apart

The 2022 foal crop has dominated the season with 40 of 82 four-year-olds Godolphin campaigned won at least once (49%), with 6 individual G1 winners. The 3yos show a low win rate but a 62% top-3 rate, meaning they are knocking loudly on the door.

Males and females: a level playing field

Both groups produced a 43% winners-to-runners ratio, but males delivered the bulk of G1 firepower (7 individual G1 winners vs 1). Fillies and mares punched harder in top-3 rate with 76% vs 63%.

Multiple-win horses

28 horses won at least twice. Three horses won four times, five won three times showing genuine depth, not just a few stars carrying the averages.

First-start winners

Nine Godolphin horses won on debut this season. Attica's debut win at Warwick Farm in September is particularly notable where he went on to win the Spring Champion Stakes at G1 level.

Sydney vs Melbourne: perfectly balanced

NSW and Victoria each produced exactly 77 distinct runners and 4 individual G1 winners; a perfect mirror of the dual-state strategy.

The trainers

The jockeys

Distance profile

The 1600–1799m bracket is the sweet spot with 45% winners-to-runners, 6 stakes winners. Sprints carry the volume but the lowest efficiency. Quality kicks in from 1400m.

Leading sires

The standout individuals

Street Boss: the engine room

No sire discussion is complete without Street Boss. Eleven of his 21 Godolphin runners have won at least once this season, a 52% winners-to-runners ratio, with 5 of those 11 individual winners finding success in black-type company. Bivouac's 83% winners-to-runners ratio, with all 6 of his runners finishing in the top three, is the standout figure in the sire rankings.

The verdict

Forty-three percent of horses have won at least once this season. Sixty-nine percent have finished in the top three. Eight horses won on debut. Twenty-eight have won multiple times. The 2022 foal crop is arguably the strongest Godolphin has produced in Australia. The operation has been perfectly balanced across Sydney and Melbourne, across males and females, across sprinters and stayers. Ten Group 1 victories, five Group 2s, six Group 3s. By every meaningful measure, this has been a Godolphin season in Australia to remember, and with the calendar still months from its conclusion, the blue army shows no signs of letting up.