Dubai: The momentous wins at this year’s Royal Ascot meeting have gone a long way in highlighting the gainful returns of Godolphin’s revamped policy to utilise the services of more than two home-based trainers.

It has unquestionably been a very good week for the racing stable owned by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, with its blue silks enjoying a fabulous run thanks to four wins supplied by four trainers.

If last season stood out for Godolphin when they collected a 10th British Champion Owner award then there is so much to look forward to over the next months following the success story of the stable’s multidimensional strategy with the distribution of horses to trainers outside their very own Saeed Bin Surour and Charlie Appleby.

Godolphin’s horses have been performing consistently in recent years and in 2015 they won 160 races in Britain alone for prizemoney totalling £3,909,023, which is an impressive achievement by any stretch of the imagination.

Their ongoing policy of having horses trained by a gamut of top trainers was perhaps triggered back in 2008 when Irish legend Jim Bolger-trained New Approach to win the 2008 Derby in the green colours of Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of Shaikh Mohammad, which at the time was something out of the ordinary.

But the policy really rolled into top gear last season following the victory of the Roger Varian-trained Belardo in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury as well as that Group 2 Bet365 Mile victory at Sandown of Richard Hannon Toormore .

Add to that the wins of Devonshire, who was sent out by Willie McCreery to win the Group 2 Lanwades Stud Stakes at the Curragh and that of the John Gosden-trained Linguistic in the Tattersalls Millions Trophy at Newmarket.

Another significant victory at the home of British racing was engineered by the French training great Andre Fabre who saddled Usherette to win the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes.

Meanwhile Godolphin’s retained trainers Charlie Appleby and Saeed Bin Surour have provided the much-needed steady flow of winners this season with Appleby winning the Lincoln and the Victoria Cup – two of the most competitive handicaps on the calendar – with Secret Brief and Flash Fire respectively.

He also supplied one of Godolphin’s four Royal Ascot winners on the memorable second day of the meeting when the progressive Hawkbill landed the Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes.

Godolphin’s objective is to continue to be competitive in the world’s major races and the successes of Ribchester in the Group 3 Jersey Stakes, Usherette in the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes and Portage in the Royal Hunt Cup on Wednesday have added fuel to the strategy to leave new acquisitions with their respective trainers.

It is conceivable that these triumphs may stem from a streamlined, re-focused Godolphin which saw John Ferguson, Shaikh Mohammad’s longtime bloodstock manager, assume the key, dual roles of chief executive and racing manager.

It is also to be expected that we will see more and more of the blue silks grace the winner’s enclosure as the European season swings into top gear.