THE champion miler in Europe as a three-year-old in 2016 and again in 2017 when he won three more Group 1 events at that distance, Ribchester is definitely a major attraction among the stallions at Kildangan Stud.

He has a wonderful outcross pedigree, inbred to Nureyev, but without either Danzig or Sadler’s Wells. No wonder that his first foals were in strong demand last autumn, with 14 of them selling for over €60,000 and a top price of 145,000gns. A yearling colt sold for €54,000 at Goffs this month.