GODOLPHIN had a good weekend in the USA with their two-year-olds, winning the Grade 2 Golden Road Stakes with Good Cheer (Medaglia D’Oro) and the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes with First Resort.

While he is a veteran of the breeding shed, turning 26 in a few weeks, Medaglia D’Oro is well worth his $75,000 stud fee next season, and that is just based on pure statistics for him as a stallion. He is the leading active North American sire by worldwide stakes winners, and among that group is an impressive 27 Group and Grade 1 winners. When a son of his sold as a yearling for $1.35 million this year it took his career tally to 56 million-dollar sales horses.