Helmet, Sheikh Mohammed's top class juvenile and Classic-winning miler has been retired to stud, reports www.breednet.com.au.Helmet, the record-breaking winner of last year's G1 Caulfield Guineas and multiple G1-winning juvenile, will stand at Darley in Australia for the forthcoming breeding season.Powerful and precocious, Helmet made his debut a fortnight before his second birthday and ran up a sequence of four straight triumphs at two, culminating with a G1 double in the Sires' Produce Stakes

Helmet, Sheikh Mohammed's top class juvenile and Classic-winning miler has been retired to stud, reports www.breednet.com.au.

Helmet, the record-breaking winner of last year's G1 Caulfield Guineas and multiple G1-winning juvenile, will stand at Darley in Australia for the forthcoming breeding season.

Powerful and precocious, Helmet made his debut a fortnight before his second birthday and ran up a sequence of four straight triumphs at two, culminating with a G1 double in the Sires' Produce Stakes and the Champagne Stakes.

He finished the season rated 123 by Timeform, behind only fellow Darley homebred Sepoy - high enough to be Champion juvenile colt in each of the previous ten seasons.

The front-running colt was even more imposing and brilliant at three when a third G1 victory came in record time in the Caulfield Guineas, won in recent years by Champion Australian sires Redoute's Choice and Lonhro - both of whom were rated inferior to Helmet at three.

His Timeform rating of 127 - behind Sepoy's 129 - also puts him ahead of Fastnet Rock, Starspangledbanner, So You Think, Choisir and his own sire Exceed And Excel at that age.

Bred by Sheikh Mohammed, Helmet is a son of sensational sire and fellow Darley stallion Exceed And Excel - the world's most prolific sire of two-year-olds. Helmet is out of the Singspiel mare Accessories, also dam of G1 Australian Guineas second and G3 winner Bullbars as well as Epaulette, one of Australia's leading two-year-olds.

Oliver Tait, Darley's Chief Operating Officer said, "Helmet was among the very best colts in an elite generation."