African Story and Prince Bishop, the past two winners of the Dubai World Cup for Godolphin, have been retired.

Both horses seemed suited by the Dubai carnival with six of African Story's eight career wins coming at the meeting while Prince Bishop won there four times.

Prince Bishop also beat Cirrus Des Aigles during his time in France with Andre Fabre and won a Group Three at Kempton as recently as September.

"They have both been remarkable racehorses over the years. Both are eight-year-olds, they have both run on Dubai World Cup night each of the past four years," Sheikh Mohammed's advisor John Ferguson said on the Godolphin website.

"They retire having given the Maktoum family many days of great pride and enjoyment. Sheikh Mohammed felt it was the right thing to retire them from the racetrack but not to abruptly end their involvement in day-to-day activity in the stable, which they enjoy immensely.

"I am not sure of the logistics as yet, but they will be in one of the Godolphin stables and in all probability will be ridden every day in the immediate future."