THERE was a strong sense of inevitability about how Kingman’s stallion career would turn out.

That he was a brilliant miler returning home to join the roster at Banstead Manor Stud ensured he would receive the best possible start, and he took his place with the added benefit of being a son of an emerging sire of stallions and out of a classic-winning half-sister to a major one.

He is a son of Invincible Spirit (Green Desert), a Group 1-winning sprinter with a classic pedigree, who is a leading international sire and who is now also an established global sire of sires.

Kingman’s dam Zenda (Zamindar) won the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches-French 1000 Guineas, while her half-brother Oasis Dream (Green Desert) was a Group 1 sprint star before going on to fame as a source of classic and other top-level standouts.

His best winners include Midday, Muhaarar, Power and Native Trail, he has 19 Group 1 winners, and his tally of stakes winners now stands at 135 on the flat. He is also a notable broodmare sire of stars such as Big Evs, Nations Pride, Siskin, Twilight Payment and Sir Dragonet.

Kingman also has sons at stud. They feature the multiple Group 1 standouts Palace Pier (winner of five Group 1 races) and Persian King (classic winner of three Group 1s), along with Coolmore’s Group 2-scorer Calyx. The quality of the mares Kingman covers makes it only a matter of time before he becomes the broodmare sire of top-class performers too.

Kingman’s influence is already widely spread, and last year he enhanced his already considerable reputation by siring 27 individual stakes winners, four of them new Group 1 winners.

They were the Prix du Moulin winner Sauterne, Grade Prix de Paris winner Feed The Flame, and Australian-breds Zardozi and the two-year-old King Colorado. He is the second-fastest northern hemisphere stallion to 50 stakes winners after his fellow Banstead Manor sire Frankel.

For a stallion standing at a fee of £125,000, one of the highest in the world, it almost seems pointless to have to mention his success at stud. However, his outstanding global performers include the triple Grade 1-star Domestic Spending, one of North America’s top turf horses, dual Group 1 sprint winner Kinross, Schnell Meister a top-level winner in Japan, and the Group 1 juvenile-winning filly Commissioning. His tally of stakes winners now stands at 75, and the century is in sight.

Kingman’s son Fearless King and daughter Habana (in 2023) are Group 2-classic winners in Germany. Public Sector, Serve The King and Technical Analysis, the latter pair Grade 1-placed, are all Grade 2 winners in the USA, whereas Elizabeth Tower, Headman, Noble Style and Summer Romance have hit that target in Japan, France, England and the UAE respectively.

KINGMAN (GB), Bay 2011. Jt Champion 3yr old colt in Europe in 2014. Champion 3yr old miler in Europe in 2014. Won 7 races, value £970,834, at 2 and 3, from 7 furlongs to 1 mile, St James’s Palace Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, QIPCO Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, Irish 2000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1, Prix Jacques Le Marois, Deauville, Gr.1, Greenham Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, Solario Stakes, Sandown, Gr.3, also placed second in 2000 Guineas, Newmarket, Gr.1, all his starts.

Retired to stud in 2015, and sire of 438 winners, of 952 races, and £36,303,008, including ZARDOZI (AUS), SAUTERNE (FR), FEED THE FLAME (GB), KING COLORADO (AUS), KINROSS (GB), COMMISSIONING (GB), PALACE PIER (GB), DOMESTIC SPENDING (GB), SCHNELL MEISTER (GER), PERSIAN KING (IRE), HABANA (GER), TECHNICAL ANALYSIS (IRE), NOBLE STYLE (GB), SERVE THE KING (GB), PUBLIC SECTOR (GB), ELIZABETH TOWER (GB), SUMMER ROMANCE (IRE), FEARLESS KING (GB), HEADMAN (GB), CALYX (GB), READY TO VENTURE (GB), NARANCO (GB), EPICTETUS (IRE), MASHHOOR (GB), TURF KING (IRE), AGE OF KINGS (IRE), QUEEN PICASSO (GB), REMARQUEE (GB), EMISSARY (GB), NOSTRUM (GB), MRS FITZHERBERT (IRE), TEMPUS (GB), MARBLING (GB), MASEN (GB), NOBLE TRUTH (FR), MEGALLAN (GB), KINGENTLEMAN (GB), SINAWANN (IRE), PARENT’S PRAYER (IRE), WALDKONIG (GB), REINA MADRE (IRE), CHACHNAK (FR), CORMORANT (IRE), BOOMER (GB), SANGARIUS (GB), and NAUSHA (GB).

Stands at: Banstead Manor Stud, Cheveley, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9RD, England.

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