Kingsgate Native retired

KINGSGATE NATIVE (Mujadil), a two-time Group 1 winner in England, has been

retired and will stand at Cheveley Park Stud in Newmarket. Trained by John Best

throughout his career, the colt who cost €28,000

as a weanling at Goffs November 2005, and 20,000 guineas as a yearling at the

following year's Doncaster Sales, registered a rare juvenile success in last

year's Nunthorpe S. (Eng-G1) at York before capturing the Golden Jubilee S.

(Eng-G1) at Royal Ascot in June. He suffered a setback following a third in this

year's renewal of the Nunthorpe last month and his conditioner has been unable

to prepare him for Longchamp's Prix de l'Abbaye (Fr-G1), in which he was

runner-up 12 months ago.

"I have been very lucky to be associated with Kingsgate Native," Best said of

the colt, who started out with a second in Royal Ascot's Windsor Castle S. last

year and raced every time in stakes company. "Right from an early stage, he

showed us tremendous speed at home and has a temperament to match. To think that

we had our first run at Royal Ascot and nearly pulled it off and to end up as a

dual Group 1 winner is a dream come true. 

"Both John Mayne and Cheveley Park have been so supportive during his career

and I am excited that he will now stand at such a prestigious stud. Myself and

my owners will hopefully support him for many years to come. I just hope I can

find one to replace him -- it will be tough."

"It is very exciting to be in a position to offer British breeders the

opportunity to use such an exciting commercial dual Group 1-winning sprinter as

Kingsgate Native, who showed phenomenal speed and class at both two and three

years over five and six furlongs," Cheveley Park Stud's Managing Director Chris

Richardson added. "Kingsgate Native is a credit to both his trainer John Best

and owner John Mayne, who so successfully campaigned the colt with such

confidence at Group 1 level. Not many stallions can boast having raced solely in

stakes/group company throughout their career, and Kingsgate Native will prove a

huge compliment to the already established portfolio of stallions standing at

Cheveley Park Stud."

A fee has yet to be announced for the three-year-old, who retires with a

record of 8-2-3-1 and earnings £438,787

($873,651).