William Buick won his 2,000 British winner with a superb route on El Cordobes in the challenges of the Princess of Wales in Newmarket on Thursday.
Initially, seated the pace established by Palladium, Charlie Appleby’s load was pushed by Buick before being tilted to the left side, maneuvering just around the field to reach Wimbledon Hawkeye and his compatriot Godolphin Arab runner of the Arab crown.
With an exceeding to do, Frankel’s son accelerated through the gears, continuing for easy success in the race of feature films of the first day at the Julymarket’s July meeting.
Addressing the media, Buick said: “I did not count, but when I was told that it was simple figures to leave, I noticed it.
“I am very proud, it is thanks to many people. Thank you first to my family, you cannot do it without them. And thanks to all the coaches, owners and stable employees, all those who have helped me over the years.
“Listen, it’s a great success, it has been suspended above me for some time to do it in the princess of Wales at the July meeting for Charlie Appleby and Godolphin means the world.”
Attached to the Andrew Balding stable after regular visits to Great Britain as a child, Buick had his first journey in August 2006 on the Tiny Tim formed by the park stables in Brighton, finishing a second discount in a handicap sales competition. With his obvious apparent capacity, he and his compatriot Prodigy Balding David Probert began to take more and more rides, in competition with each other for the crown of apprentice champions in 2008.
Buick was a prosperous apprentice, seen here by winning the handicap of Doncaster’s Mallard aboard the dance in 2007
After being appointed apprentice jockey of the year for the second successive year in 2008, Buick became a professional. It would not take long before he led winners at the highest level, winning his first victory of group 1 in EP Taylor Stakes in Woodbine in October 2009 aboard Lahaleeb.
He would win his first big break on British soil the following year, when he became a stable jockey for John Gosden after the dismissal of the previous outgoing fortune Jimmy. The winners quickly started to flow also, the duo bringing the 2010 renewal of the Sheema Classic (Dar Re Mi), Arlington Million (Debussy) and St Leger (Arctic Cosmos) – The first classic Jockey victory.
From there, Buick went forcefully. He raised a century of winners in a calendar year for the first time in 2011 before winning nine high -level competitions in the 12 months that followed. A first crown of group 1 in the blue of Godolphin with Sajjhaain in the Jebel Hatta 2013 sewn the seeds for a permanent association with the owners of the water, by whom it was signed as the first choice of Charlie Appleby in November 2014.
A quasi -manca in the 2015 derby was avenged for glory in the Irish equivalent on Jack Hobbs, before Buick attended the first royal crown of the ASCOT de Charlie Appleby – the age of space at home in the stakes King George V.
Buick celebrates the space age after winning the King George V issues in Royal Ascot in 2015
Despite a suspension following an explosion following a controversial renewal of the 2016 Diane Prize, Buick would become Godolphin number in the last months of this year, replacing James Doyle as the best jockey of Saeed Bin Suroor.
The Norwegian recovered from a compression fracture of a timely vertebra to knock on Wuheida in the Breeders’ Cup Gilly & Mare Turf 2017 Breeders before enjoying the decisive moment of his career to date in the 2018 derby, when Masar challenged 16/1 to win the Epsom Downs.
William Buick celebrated Derby Glory aboard Masar in 2018
Other classic glories followed in the 2021 ST LEGER on board Hurricane Lane before incredible individual campaigns in 2022 and 2023 were rewarded with the Jockey Trophy Champion British. After winning the 2024 Guinea 2024 on a notable speech, Buick returned to Newmarket for a stellar weekend twelve months later – just becoming the first jockey in a decade to win the Guinea on the Rowley Mile.
After joining Trawlerman with a creeping victory in the Ascot Gold Cup last month, Buick will soon turn his attention to Glorious Goodwood where he should intervene for the driver of the Palace Hero de St James because of a suspension for the cavalier retained from Juddmonte, Colin Keane.
