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Dubawi is a hot favourite to claim the European sires’ championship this season, ending a five-year domination of the title by Galileo.

A title win by Dubawi would also mean he would end a 25-year run of premiership wins by Coolmore stallions.

UK bookmakers have Dubawi at long odds-on to take the title, the first time they have offered a market on the sires’ premiership for several years due to Galileo’s dominance.

With the big money Royal Ascot, Goodwood Festival and Ebor meeting at York complete Dubawi is leading the way by prize-money – the criterion by which the championship is traditionally decided – with earnings of more than £5.1 million, more than £800,000 ahead of Galileo.

Dubawi has sired 10 individual G1 winners worldwide this season with his latest in Europe Arabian Queen extending his lead when she won the recent Juddmonte International in an upset at York.

Galileo will rely on Gleneagles, withdrawn from the Juddmonte owing to the ground, to make a late season prizemoney charge following news that he is being set for the Breeders Cup Classic in Kentucky in October.

He is also entered for the Irish Champions Weekend and British Champions Day.

However Dubawi is stronger numerically with four representatives compared to Galileo’s three in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, a race worth more than £2 million to the winner.

# DUBAWI’s son Poet’s Voice sired his first stakes winner when the 2YO colt Whitman, from the Sunday Silence mare Sundrop won a Listed race at Ripon.

Whitman is one of eight winners from the first Northern Hemisphere bred crop of two-year-olds by shuttle sire Poet’s Voice.

# GALILEO’s dual G2 winner Telescope has been retired on veterinary advice.

The Sir Michael Stoute-trained entire took out the G2 Great Voltigeur Stakes as a three-year-old and the G2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2014 by seven lengths.

Also Group One-placed, Telescope retires the winner of five of his 14 career starts, for £766,736 in prize money