Kingman – brilliant miler closely related to Oasis Dream

KINGMAN (GB) - 2011 bay horse

Nothing is guaranteed in this business, but there can be no doubt that Kingman is one of the most exciting horses to have gone to stud in recent decades. Horses such as Sadler's Wells, Galileo and Sea The Stars had such obvious potential when they began their stallion careers, and although Kingman has a monumental task ahead of him to join that elite trio, it is hard to imagine him failing to get winners at the highest levels.

He was a brilliant racehorse, a Timeform 134-rated champion and classic star, a high-class two-year-old who went on to win four Group 1s over a mile. He covered an outstanding first book of 143 mares at Banstead Manor Stud, his first crop includes a half-sister to this year's Derby hero Wings Of Eagles (by Pour Moi), and his first foals made up to €320,000.

What makes him such an exciting prospect is that all of this is backed up by a stallion's pedigree.

Kingman was a brilliant miler and he has a stallion's pedigree (Photo: Sieglinde McGee)

He is a son of the Group 1-winning sprinter Invincible Spirit (by Green Desert), whose early stallion sons include the Group 1-siring horses Lawman and I Am Invincible, and he is out of Zenda (by Zamindar), the Group 1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas) winning half-sister to the triple Group 1 star and outstanding stallion Oasis Dream (by Green Desert).

​Their dam, Hope (by Dancing Brave), is an unraced full-sister to the Group 1 Irish Oaks heroine Wemyss Bight and her offspring include the four-times Group/Grade 1 star Beat Hollow (by Sadler's Wells), a sire of top-level winners on the flat and under National Hunt rules. Hope's siblings also include the dam of Group 1-winning stayer Reefscape (by Linamix), and of Group 2 scorers Bellamy Cay (by Kris), Coastal Path (by Halling) and Martaline (by Linamix).

Bahamian (by Mill Reef), the Group 2 Prix de Pomone runner-up and Listed Oaks Trial scorer who is the third dam of Kingman, is also the third dam of the Group 2 Prix Chaudennay scorer Doha Dream (by Shamardal) and of New Bay (by Dubawi), who has completed his first season at Ballyinch Stud.

New Bay won the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby), Group 2 Prix Guillaume d'Ornano and Group 3 Prix Gontaut Biron, he chased home Make Believe in the Group 1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains (French 2000 Guineas), was third to Golden Horn in the Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, and fourth to Almanzor in a vintage edition of the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

This famous Juddmonte family is one of the strongest in the stud book. It has already given us an elite stallion in Oasis Dream, and with Kingman being so closely related to that Banstead Manor Stud standout, there is every reason to hope that he too can become a leading sire.

KINGMAN (GB) – b.2011 – Invincible Spirit – Zenda, 7 wins inc Prix Jacques le Marois (Gr1), Sussex Stakes (Gr1), Irish 2000 Guineas (Gr1), St James's Palace Stakes (Gr1), Greenham Stakes (Gr3), Solario Stakes (Gr3), 2nd 2000 Guineas (Gr1). Sire in England. First foals in 2016.

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grf - Chill (by Verglas)     Arqana     Aug     €160,000
bf - Clenor (by Oratorio)     Tattersalls     Oct     125,000gns
bf - Come Touch The Sun (by Fusaichi Pegasus)     Tattersalls     Oct     55,000gns
​bc - Cubanita (by Selkirk)     Goffs     Sept     €50,000
bf - Cut Short (by Diesis)     Tattersalls     Oct     550,000gns
bf - Damaniyat Girl (by Elusive Quality)     Tattersalls     Oct     withdrawn
bc - Don't Forget Faith (by Victory Gallop)     Tattersalls     Oct     not sold
bc - Don't Forget Faith (by Victory Gallop)     Tattersalls     Nov     45,000gns
​bf - Faithfilly (by Red Clubs)     Arqana     Aug     €80,000
bc - Fallen In Love (by Galileo)     Tattersalls     Oct     260,000gns
bc - Fallen Star (by Brief Truce)     Tattersalls     Oct     not sold
bf - Farnesina (by Anabaa)     Tattersalls     Oct     95,000gns
bc - Gaditana (by Rainbow Quest)     Tattersalls     Nov     40,000gns
bc - Go Lovely Rose (by Pivotal)     Goffs     Sept     ​€650,000
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bf - Hazel Lavery (by Excellent Art)     Arqana     Aug     €240,000
bf - Hippy Hippy Shake (by Danehill Dancer)     Tattersalls     Oct     ​not sold
bf - Intense Pink (by Pivotal)     Tattersalls     Oct     47,000gns
​bc - Janicellaine (by Beat Hollow)     Arqana     Aug     €360,000
bf - Justlookdontouch (by Galileo)     Tattersalls     Oct     1,700,000gns
bc - Liberally (by Statue of Liberty)     Goffs     Sept     €240,000
bf - Lovely Blossom (by Spinning World)     Tattersalls     Oct     not sold
bc - Maganda (by Sadler's Wells)     Tattersalls     Oct     not sold
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bf - Masaya (by Dansili)     Tattersalls     Oct     60,000gns
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bf - Platonic (by Zafonic)     Arqana     Aug     €300,000
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bc - Starlet (by Sea The Stars)     Goffs     Sept     €140,000
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bf - Swiss Diva (by Pivotal)     Tattersalls     Oct     withdrawn
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bf - Three Mysteries (by Linamix)     Tattersalls     Oct     withdrawn
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bf - Wittgenstein (by Shamardal)     Arqana     Aug     not sold
grf - Wrong Answer (by Verglas)     Tattersalls     Nov     withdrawn
grf - Ysoldina (by Kendor)     Arqana     Aug     €750,000
bc - Zacheta (by Polish Precedent)     Tattersalls     Oct     160,000gns