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Tentyris to Europe? Godolphin eyeing off international campaign
By Connor Scanlon
Godolphin’s three-year-old brigade had an outstanding 2025 Spring Racing Carnival winning a combined three Group 1s and a second in the $20 million Everest between Tentyris, Beiwacht, Observer and Tempted.
Speaking on SENTrack & RSN’s Giddy Up, Godolphin Australia’s managing director Andy Makiv has provided an update on each of his three-year-old guns.
See Makiv’s update on Godolphin's three-year-old's ahead of the Autumn Racing Carnival below:
Tentyris
Tentyris’ last start was his win in the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) on November 1 last year, and now he is eying off both the Group 1 Lightning Stakes (1000m) on February 12 and the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) on March 7 before potentially making the trip overseas for a European campaign.
“There's certainly no decision made on a European campaign,” Makiv revealed.
“At the moment his programme is the Lightning, into the Newmarket… Then there's an option to say, ‘Ok, do we consider travel?’
“(Europe) is only a consideration at this point - he's a colt, he's only three, is he seasoned enough to travel - all those things need to be factored in.
“It'd be nice to go take some horses to Dubai, if possible - it's the 30th anniversary of the Dubai World Cup at the end of March, so there is the Al Quoz Sprint (on April 4), so that's a prospect for a horse like him into Europe, or you do it the year after.
“Certainly at the moment, his two targets are those two races (the Lightning and the Newmarket), and hopefully if everything goes well in those two, we then work out whether (he goes to) Sydney or an international trip.”
Beiwacht
The Chris Waller-trained Beiwacht has reportedly come out of spring in excellent condition.
The bay’s spring was headlined by his dominating Group 1 Golden Rose (1400m) victory, winning by the million-dollar race by 4.14 lengths.
Makiv has outlined the Group 3 Eskimo Prince (1200m) into the Newmarket Handicap for Beiwacht or he will follow the exact same Australian route as Tentyris.
“I think he's going pretty well, he's a pretty good colt, we sort of forget a little bit his Golden Rose day, he absolutely smashed them,” Godolphin’s managing director said.
“He has come back very well, our trainer Chris Waller informed us.
“I thought his trial was outstanding the other day. He'll have another trial next week.
“He will either run in Eskimo Prince in Sydney (on February 7) into probably the Newmarket or also map the same path as Tentyris and go the Lightning into the Newmarket.
“That seems to be where Chris wants to head, so he'll make a decision based on how he trials next week.”
Observer
The Group 1 Victorian Derby (2500m) winner has plenty of options in the autumn ahead of him, according to Makiv.
While the Ciaron Maher-trained bay has a range of races which he could run at, Makiv believes the colt will start his campaign in the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) before exploring his options.
“I think he's an Australian Guineas horse at the moment. Ciaron’s certainly keen to keep him in Melbourne,” revealed Makiv.
“Initially Ciaron was thinking Australian Guineas, Australian Cup (2000m), Australian Derby (2400m). The problem is you can't do both (the Australian Cup and Australian Derby) now.
“We've got to make a decision on whether we keep him to the mile and a quarter (Australian Cup) or go out to the mile and a half (Australian Derby).
“There's a few options there, after the Australian Guineas, we'll make that call.
“It’s certainly either the Rosehill Guineas (2000m) into the Australian Derby or it's stay in Melbourne and you could even back-up into an All-Star Mile or just go through the three-year-old route of the Alister Clark into the into the Australian Derby.
“So we'll work that out, but it's certainly been considered and talked about.”
Tempted
Regarding a potential international campaign, Makiv admitted that only Beiwacht or Tentyris would be the two horses to head overseas – not Tempted.
The reason why?
Because Tempted is better suited to a pre-race routine which is difficult to create internationally.
“Those two (Beiwacht and Tentyris) are obviously prospects to do it (but) there's no point in travelling if you're not right at the top of your game,” Makiv said.
“There's certainly some decisions to be made, but at this point in time they're merely discussions.
“A filly like Tempted would be a nice filly to travel, but at the same time she can get pretty warm.
“She can have two strappers swinging off her in a mounting yard, so maybe she isn't the right one to travel because she's better suited to a routine, and it's hard to create that routine internationally.”





