KENDARGENT TO STAND AT €22,000 IN 2017

KENDARGENT, who is joint leading active French sire on percentage of Black Type Horses by runners in 2016, will stand for €22,000 exc. VAT (live foal) in 2017. The handsome grey, who covered over 480 mares from 2014 to 2016, had a successful year both on the track and in the sales ring this year.

The highlight of his yearling crop was of course when a daughter of his out of Restia, making her a full sister to Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes third and winner at Group 2 and Group 3 level Restiadargent, sold for 525,000 gns to Juddmonte at Tattersalls.

On the track Goken, who recently retired to stud, took third place in the Gr.1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, Jimmy Two Times won the Gr.3 Prix de la Porte Maillot and was third in the Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest while both Restiana and the two-year-old Xaarino won at Listed level.