Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stallions operation confirmed on Tuesday that Ombudsman will stand at Kildangan Stud in Monasterevin, Co Kildare next year.

Ombudsman had a rating of 131 in the latest World Thoroughbred Rankings list published in early October - placing him second in the global table behind the gelding Ka Ying Rising - but Ombudsman's rating is likely to rise when the new list is released on Thursday, November 12th, following Ombudsman's British Champion Stakes win at Ascot last month. The Irish Field understands that Ombudsman remains on course for the Japan Cup on November 29th - his first time to race over a mile and a half - and so no date has been set for his arrival in Kildare.

Daryz is third on the World Thoroughbred Rankings list and he has already been confirmed to stand in Ireland next year.

The highest rated horse to date by Night Of Thunder, Ombudsman recorded five top-flight wins during his outstanding career including back-to-back victories in the Prince Of Wales’s (the first to do so in 30 years) and most recently, his scintillating triumph in the Champion Stakes. His fee has been set at €45,000, which is just 10% of the new fee for his sire Night Of Thunder.

Night Of Thunder stood at a fee of €200,000 in 2026 but that will more than double to €450,000 in 2027 following the stallion's successful defence of his champion European sire title. Night Of Thunder recorded his 100th individual stakes winner late last month. He has sired six Group 1 winners this year and no fewer than 32 blacktype winners. His 4.6 million-guinea colt at Tattersalls Book 1 broke the European sales record and is the highest-priced yearling sold anywhere in the world this year.

Notable Speech will also be a new name at Kildangan Stud in 2027. His fee has been set at €40,000.

By Dubawi, Notable Speech amassed seven Group 1/Grade 1 wins in his career and was crowned European champion three-year-old, Eclipse Champion male turf horse and champion older miler in Europe. His devastating turn of foot saw him land the 2000 Guineas and Sussex Stakes at three, the Woodbine and Breeders’ Cup Mile at four and this year, the Lockinge, City Of York and Woodbine Mile.

This year's star three-year-old miler Bow Echo will stand at Darley's Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket at a starting fee of £65,000. Another by Night Of Thunder, he retired as the undefeated classic hero who went on to win both the Group 1 St James’s Palace and Group 1 Sussex Stakes this year. His 2000 Guineas win was allotted the highest race rating this century, bar Frankel, and he is just the third horse to complete this Group 1 treble unbeaten since the Pattern began.

Dubawi remains the king at Dalham Hall, his fee remaining at £350,000. He sired a further 27 stakes winners in 2026 including fellow Group/Grade 1 winners Arabian Crown, God’s Window and Imperial Emperor. He also added two new Group 1/Grade 1 winners as a broodmare sire in Fairy Glen and Al Hudaiba.

Kildangan's Blue Point has had his best year yet, siring four top-flight winners including four-time Group 1 heroine Blue Bolt and Folsom Blues, who landed the Group 1 Vincent O'Brien National Stakes before rounding off his season with a fine second in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. Only last weekend he sired a new Group 1 winner when Point Barrow took the VRC Champions Sprint in Australia. He will stand at a fee of €130,000, up from €100,000.

Hugely popular in 2026, Ghaiyyath has had his fee doubled to €40,000 at Kildangan for 2027. He has sired Group 1 winners in both hemispheres this year, plus three juvenile stakes winners and the Group 1 Golden Fleece runner up. He has also enjoyed spectacular success in the sale ring, with his yearlings selling for up to 1.3 million guineas and averaging seven times their conception fee.

Sam Bullard, Director of Stallions, said, “At Darley, we are incredibly proud of this year’s success, both on the track and in the ring and are hugely excited about the three top-class additions to our roster for 2027.

“Bow Echo is arguably the best commercial stallion prospect to retire to stud in recent years and to stand an unbeaten Champion and Classic winner is a great honour. He has already gone down very well with breeders who have been to see him at Dalham and is letting down into a beautiful horse.

“Notable Speech is Dubawi’s most prolific Group 1-winning stallion son and if he passes on that electrifying speed that he showed so often, he is a thrilling prospect as a stallion.

“Ombudsman, who will stand alongside his own champion Sire, has given Godolphin some truly memorable days on the racecourse and is the highest rated descendant of Dubawi yet.

"As ever, the Darley stallions’ success is down to the breeders, so we thank you for your continued support and look forward to discussing your mating plans in the coming weeks.”

DARLEY EUROPE STALLION FEES FOR 2027

Dalham Hall Stud, UK

Stallion Fee (2026)

Dubawi £350,000 (same)

Too Darn Hot £75,000 (£100,000)

Bow Echo £65,000 (new)

Rosallion £30,000 (£40,000)

Modern Games £27,000 (£27,500)

Farhh Private (Private)

Palace Pier £20,000 (£32,000)

Pinatubo £15,000 (£17,500)

Harry Angel £10,000 (£10,000)

Inisherin £10,000 (£12,500)

Triple Time £8,000 (£10,000)

Perfect Power £5,000 (£7,500)

Fees exclusive of VAT, Oct 1st, SLF

Kildangan Stud, Ireland

Stallion Fee (2026)

Night Of Thunder €450,000 (€200,000)

Blue Point €130,000 (€100,000)

Ombudsman €45,000 (new)

Ghaiyyath €40,000 (€20,000)

Notable Speech €40,000 (new)

Teofilo €25,000 (€30,000)

Space Blues €15,000 (same)

Native Trail €12,500 (€16,000)

Shadow Of Light €12,500 (€17,500)

Naval Crown €9,000 (same)

Fees inclusive of VAT, Oct 1st, SLF

France

Stallion Fee (2026)

Tribalist €6,000 (same)

Fee exclusive of VAT, live foal