Dubai: Godolphin CEO Joe Osborne has lavished praise on his whole team following the stable’s outstanding Breeders Cup double at Del Mar, California on Saturday evening.

Wuheida, ridden by William Buick, was a brilliant winner of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf, a feat that was reprised by Mickael Barzalona aboard Talismanic in the $4 million Turf on the same card.

The two Godolphin’s retained jockeys: Norwegian-born Buick and French rider Barzalona, were savouring a first taste of success at American racing’s richest and most famous race meeting.

“This Breeders’ Cup double highlights the global stretch of the Godolphin team,” Osborne said of the stable that was founded by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

“If you look at the connections of the two winners we have had, and where they were bred, where they were sired, where they were trained and raised, the jockeys involved. It’s such a huge team effort. It’s so gratifying for everybody to see that.”

“It’s also gratifying to see everybody delivering the sort of success that Shaikh Mohammad deserves,” Osborne added on the Godolphin website.

Talismanic, bred out of Shaikh Mohammad’s Darley Stud, was continuing an unending list of shock winners at the Championship, winning at odds of 14/1 in a one and half mile contest that attracted the top turf horses from Europe and North America.

Trained by the master tactician, Andre Fabre for Godolphin, in France scored by half a length from Beach Patrol with 2016 winner Highland Reel, the mount of Ryan Moore, a neck back in third.

It was the four-year-old son of star Darley stallion Medaglia d’Oro’s first Grade 1 victory and fifth for Fabre in Breeders’ Cup history and second in the Turf following In The Wings who won when the race was held at Belmont Park in 1990.

“I can’t believe it,” said Barzalona who in 2012 won the Dubai World Cup at Meydan aboard Monterosso. “I am thrilled to have won my first Breeders’ Cup race. I expected the horse to run well, but I was not sure I would win. Mr Fabre is a great trainer.”

Godolphin handler Charlie Appleby continued to exchange of praise and plaudits as he described Buick’s performance aboard Wuheida in the Breeders’ Cup Fillies & Mares Turf as ‘a peach of a ride.’

Buick, who has had an up and down season due to injury, was at the top of his game aboard the Godolphin filly, making his run for the line with flawless timing and holding on for a comfortable victory over Irish trained Rhododendron, ridden by Ryan Moore.

“She’s a push-button ride,” said Buick, who was winning his first Breeders’ Cup race at the 12th attempt. “I could send her forward from the gate and get her into a nice rhythm, and the trip was never a concern. I was very happy throughout and I had plenty of horse and I could go where I want. It was a case of don’t get too excited and don’t go too soon.”