Expensive Godolphin Breezer Maximized Impresses with TDN Rising Star Display at Haydock

[Wandering Eyes]

Godolphin's recent £720,000 Goffs UK Breeze-Up acquisition Maximized (Mehmas) yielded a swift return on investment with a performance worthy of TDN Rising Stardom in Thursday's Betfred “Follow Us On X” EBF Novice Stakes over six furlongs at Haydock.

The Cheveley Park Stud-bred went postward as an 11-2 chance and broke well to stalk the pace in second from the outset of this debut. Looming large before inching ahead passing the quarter-mile marker, he quickened impressively to settle the contest in a matter of strides approaching the final furlong and kept on powerfully in the closing stages to easily account for stablemate Time To Turn (Dark Angel) by 1 1/4 lengths. The runner-up finished 2 3/4 lengths clear of the remainder.

 

A @godolphin 1-2 but NOT in the order the market expected

Maximized, a £720,000 breeze-up buy, proves too streetwise for seemingly better-fancied stablemate Time To Turn.

Two colts with stacks of potential. @Betfred | @davidprobert9 pic.twitter.com/ws9rbnNdAk

— Racing TV (@RacingTV) May 22, 2025

Maximized is the latest of five foals and second scorer produced by a daughter of G1 Cheveley Park Stakes heroine Hooray (Invincible Spirit), herself a out of Listed Star Stakes winner Hypnotize (Machiavellian). Hypnotize, who is a half-sister to Group 2-winning G1 1000 Guineas third Dazzle (Gone West), also threw Listed Criterium de l'Ouest victor Hypnotic (Lomitas) and Listed Two-Year-Old Trophy third Mazyoun (Mayson). The April-foaled bay is a half-brother to Listed Cathedral Stakes victrix and G3 Ballyogan Stakes runner-up Benefit (Acclamation).

2nd-Haydock, £11,000, Mdn, 5-22, 2yo, 6fT, 1:14.97, g/f.
MAXIMIZED (GB), c, 2, by Mehmas (Ire)
1st Dam: Boost (GB), by Pivotal (GB)
2nd Dam: Hooray (GB), by Invincible Spirit (Ire)
3rd Dam: Hypnotize (GB), by Machiavellian
Sales history: 95,000gns RNA Ylg '24 TATOCT; £720,000 2yo '25 GOUKBR. *1/2 to Benefit (GB) (Acclamation {GB}), SW-Eng & GSP-Ire. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, £5,940. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Godolphin; B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd (GB); T-Charlie Appleby; J-David Probert.

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