John Ferguson, currently a top trainer in Britain and bloodstock adviser to Sheikh Mohammed, will move to become chief executive and racing manager at the ruler's Godolphin stable, which will be reorganised and streamlined, WAM said.
The best horses at Ferguson's Bloomfields stable will join Godolphin, and staff at Bloomfields will be invited to do so. Godolphin will incorporate Sheikh Mohammed's Darley breeding operation, and the Darley name will be used solely as a brand to promote stallions.
"Our long-term objective is to improve on Godolphin's results on the racetrack," WAM quoted Ferguson as saying.
Godolphin has about 2,000 horses in training worldwide as well as 2,500 breeding stock, and it employs 1,500 staff, WAM said.
(Reporting by Andrew Torchia; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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