Royal Ascot | Godolphin buy Dawn Approach

Royal Ascot | Godolphin buy Dawn Approach. Godolphin have bought a majority share in Jim Bolger's unbeaten juvenile Dawn Approach, the ante-post favorite for next season's Qipco 2000 Guineas.

The son of Derby hero New Approach secured his fourth success from as several starts with a determined show in last week's Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.

A statement on the Godolphin web site confirmed Dawn Approach would stay in coaching with Bolger for the remainder of the campaign and race in Godolphin's colors.

A decision concerning his three-year-old career won't be created till "much later" in 2012.

New Approach was trained by Bolger throughout his two-year-old and three-year-old career, racing throughout his Classic year within the colors of Princess Haya of Jordan, the wife of Godolphin supremo Sheikh Mohammed.

Simon Crisford "It is astounding how well New Approach has started his stallion career and Dawn Approach seems to possess inherited several of his qualities."
Simon Crisford

He currently stands as a stallion at Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud and has enjoyed a spectacular initial season, with Dawn Approach one in every of 3 Royal Ascot winners last week.

The Godolphin web site said of Dawn Approach: "He are going to be geared toward the highest end-of-the-season races, like the cluster One Goffs Vincent O'Brien Stakes (formerly the National Stakes) at the Curragh on September fifteen and therefore the cluster One Dubai Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on October thirteen, each run over seven furlongs."

Simon Crisford, the Godolphin racing manager, said: "We are delighted Dawn Approach can race for Godolphin and appearance forward to seeing him race at the very best level throughout his career.

"It is astounding how well New Approach has started his stallion career and Dawn Approach seems to possess inherited several of his qualities."