Bivouac was a World Champion Sprinter and a first season standout sire

Bivouac is a home-bred stallion by Godolphin. He is out of the Australian sire Exceed And Excel and is a three-quarter brother to the 4-time Group one winner Guelph. Bivouac is from the mare, Dazzler, who won her first two starts at Geelong and Flemington in an 11-start career. Bivouac began his racing career with a second placing at Randwick, followed by a third placing three months later at the same track. His third start in a race was at Warwick Farm Racecourse in the Listed Lonhro Plate where he won by a length under jockey Blake Shinn. After finishing unplaced at his next start in the Todman Stakes, Bivouac was listed as the first emergency for the Golden Slipper Stakes, however he failed to gain a start. Two weeks later he started in the Kindergarten Stakes at Group 3 level. He won the race by 2 lengths with Blake Shinn in the saddle again.

Bivouac resumed racing as a three-year-old in the Vain Stakes at Caulfield, winning the race by a comfortable margin of 4 lengths. As a result of this dominant win, in his next start he was installed as the favourite in the San Domenico Stakes, but was held to second place. Bivouac's next start proved successful in The Run to the Rose Stakes. Two weeks later he contested his first Group one race, the Golden Rose Stakes at Rosehill, winning under jockey Hugh Bowman. His trainer James Cummings described watching Bivouac win the Golden Rose as ‘poetry in motion’.

Bivouac started in the Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley Racecourse, but starting from barrier #1 the horse drifted back through the field and was blocked for running room throughout the race, eventually finishing in 6th position. Columnist Richard Callander believed that the Manikato Stakes was a major race that got away from McEvoy and made him pose the question "Was Kerrin McEvoy asleep at the wheel?" Bivouac contested the Coolmore Stud Stakes a week later and was narrowly beaten into second place for jockey Hugh Bowman.

Bivouac was then sent for a three-month spell and returned to racing in the 2020 Oakleigh Plate. After settling in the back half of the field he flashed home late to finish 6th, beaten 2.5 lengths. Next start he contested the Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. Ridden by jockey Glen Boss, he won the comfortably by 2.5 lengths. In May Bivouac finished third in the  William Reid Stakes, before unplaced runs in the TJ Smith Stakes and All Aged Stakes. After running placings in The Shorts and The Everest, on both occasions beaten by Classique Legend, Bivouac started at odds of $3.20 in the Group 1 VRC Sprint Classic. Ridden by Glen Boss he won by over 3 lengths, beating the reigning Australian Horse of the Year, Nature Strip.

Bivouac would not start for another 3 months when resuming on the 13 February 2021 in the Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington over 1000 metres. He was well backed but failed to threaten in the finish, eventually being beaten into 5th place by the winner Nature Strip. After two unplaced starts in the Canterbury Stakes and TJ Smith Stakes the horse was retired from racing.

Bivouac was retired to stand at Darley Australia for the 2021 season. He was one of four new stallions to stand that season for Godolphin including the European trio of Ghaiyyath, Pinaturbo and Earthlight. The best performed sire son to retire to stud of Exceed And Excel, he was crowned World Champion Sprinter, Champion Three-Year-Old, amassing $5,696,110 in prize money and retiring a six-time Group winner, three at G1 level.

Record - 22: 7–4–3

Earnings - A$ 5,668,860

Kindergarten Stakes (2019)

Vain Stakes (2019)

The Run to the Rose (2019)

Golden Rose Stakes (2019)

Newmarket Handicap (2020)

VRC Sprint Classic (2020)