Dubai: Godolphin wasted no time in notching their first international winner of 2014 when they opened their British account for the season at Kempton Park on Tuesday.

Less than 72 hours after capturing a seventh Dubai World Cup (G1) at Meydan Racecourse on Saturday, the Boys in Blue returned to the UK and went straight to work.

Mickael Barazalona gave the lightly-raced Bustopher a fine ride to win a Maiden Stakes event on the all-weather track and provided trainer Charlie Appleby with his maiden win of the season.

A Darley-bred son of Elusive Quality, Bustopher justified his favouritism in the mile event with a clear-cut two-and-a-half length victory over the Olly Stevens-trained Heisman, who was making his first racecourse appearance.

Godolphin won the Dubai World Cup with African Story, who was trained by Saeed Bin Surour and ridden by Silvestre de Sousa.

Meanwhile, The Andre Fabre-trained Earnshaw will become Godolphin’s first Group runner of the season when he faces six rivals in the Group 3 Prix Djebel over seven furlongs at Maisons-Laffitte, France, on Thursday.

The race often serves as a trial for the colts Classic in Europe, with the last winner to progress and win the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (French 2,000 Guineas) was Style Vendome in 2013. The last horse to complete the Prix Djebel-English 2,000 Guineas doubles was Makfi in 2010.

A son of Travers Stakes (G1) victor Medaglia D’Oro, Earnshaw has shown a lot of early promise with two wins from three starts. In only his second start at Saint Cloud in October last year, he won the Group 3 Prix Thomas Bryon and was only just touched off on his Group 1 debut in the Criterium International at the same course a month later.

After the colt’s dominant display in the Prix Thomas Byron, jockey Maxime Guyon said: “He’s got a great attitude to racing and he’s very relaxed. On what he’s shown today I don’t see any reason why he can’t go higher.”

Last year’s winner of the Prix Djebel was the Nicolas Celement-trained Style Vendome, who went on to win the French 2,000 Guineas by a neck a month later.