RACING POST TROPHY winner Kingsbarns is relocating from Ireland to South Africa after Drakenstein Stud purchased a share in the Galileo stallion.

The Castlehyde Stud resident is due to arrive at his new home in late August and will stand the southern hemisphere season alongside fellow former Coolmore sire Duke Of Marmalade.

“It’s extremely exciting for us and the South African breeding industry to be standing the first Group 1-winning son of Galileo,” said Drakenstein Stud’s Kevin Sommerville.

Bred by Annemarie O’Brien, Kingsbarns made an eyecatching start to his career when running out the seven-length winner of a Navan maiden in the October of his two-year-old season, less than three weeks before scoring at Doncaster.

Installed as ante-post favourite for the Derby, he was forced to miss the early part of the season due to a hoof infection. Tailed off on his three-year-old debut in the Irish Champion Stakes, he bounced back to claim third in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

At four he added places in the Royal Whip Stakes and Heritage Stakes to his tally before retiring to Castlehyde this season.

On Duke Of Marmalade’s success this year – spearheaded by Prix de Diane heroine Star Of Seville – Sommerville added: “A Group 1 winner was the one thing missing from his CV.

“He’s a prolific sire in getting Group winners over varying distances, but he hadn’t got that top-flight winner yet.

“However, he was getting so many Group winners that, for me, a Group 1 winner seemed almost inevitable.

“South African breeders have accepted him really well and he had a good book of mares last year, but he’ll have a bigger and better one this year.”

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