DARLEY will stand 15 horses at Kildangan Stud in Monasterevin, Co Kildare, next year.

Jungle Cat (€8,000) is the only new addition while Australian import Epaulette has been taken off the roster.

Shamardal remains the star name on the Kildangan roster and his fee is private. Teofilo (sire of this week’s Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter) stays at €40,000.

The only horse getting a fee increase publicly is Fast Company, sire of this year’s Arlington Million winner Robert Bruce. Eight stallions stay at the same fee and coming down in price are Belardo (€10,000), Slade Power (€7.500) and Dawn Approach (€15,000).

Darley’s UK operation has landed another coup by securing the services of Cracksman. The dual Champion Stakes winner trained by John Gosden for Anthony Oppenheimer will retire to Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, where he will stand alongside Golden Horn, a Derby and Arc winner for the same owner-trainer combination.

A son of Frankel, Cracksman will stand at a fee of £25,000. He is Europe’s highest-rated horse.

Winner of his sole start at two (where he finished four lengths ahead of Stradivarius), Cracksman was beaten less than a length in both the English and Irish Derbys, before storming to wide-margin victories in the Great Voltiguer, the Prix Niel and the Champion Stakes – winning the last by no fewer than seven lengths.

This year he has added three further victories at the highest level to his outstanding record, landing the Prix Ganay, the Coronation Cup and his second consecutive Champion Stakes, once again by a huge margin. This victory earned him a Timeform rating of 136, 2lbs clear of Arc heroine Enable.

Cracksman is the highest-rated horse to retire to stud in Europe since his own sire, Frankel. In fact, the only other horses retired with a higher rating since 2000 are Sea The Stars and Dubai Millennium.

Darley’s star stallion Dubawi remains unchanged at £250,000. Star sprinter Harry Angel will stand at Dalham Hall Stud at a fee of £20,000 and multiple Group 1 winner Hawkbill will cover his first book at Dalham Hall Stud at a fee of £7,500.