THE week got off to the perfect start for Godolphin when Ribchester won the curtain-raiser, the Queen Anne Stakes.

They never really had a sweat either. The Richard Fahey-trained colt always travelled well for William Buick. There may have been a little bit of a wobble when he started to hang to his left, that he would let Mutakayyef in, but he finished off his race like the top-class miler that he is and all at Godolphin could exhale.