The victory on Monday of Royal Chapel in the Listed Criterium de Bordeaux brought up the 100th stakes winner for the filly's sire Kingman. His speed in reaching this landmark century since retiring to stud a decade ago has been beaten only by Kingman's fellow Banstead Manor resident, Frankel. There can be few finer tributes to the vision of the late Prince Khalid Abdullah than these two third-generation homebreds standing alongside each other and continuing to fly the flag for the Juddmonte brand through their achievements at stud.The record of Kingman, the peerless champion miler of 2014, has been enhanced this year by his Classic-winning son Field Of Gold, who is being primed for a return on Champions Day to Ascot, where he won the G1 St James's Palace Stakes a month after landing the Irish 2,000 Guineas. After Elmalka, Persian King and Sparkling Plenty, Field Of Gold was the fourth Classic winner for Kingman, and among his 100 stakes winners are 14 individual Group/Grade 1 winners, their victories scattered across the world in England, Ireland, France, America, Australia, and Japan.Now standing at Haras d'Etreham, Persian King, from his sire's first crop, was his breakthrough winner at the highest level, taking the Poule d'Essai des Poulains before adding, at four, the Prix du Moulin and Prix d'Ispahan to his Group 1 record.From the second crop came the champion miler Palace Pier, who is now starting to make his way in the stallion ranks and has three first-crop stakes winners to his name in 2025. Palace Pier's contemporaries include the British-bred Domestic Spending, who landed three consecutive Grade I triumphs at Del Mar, Churchill Downs and Belmont Park for Chad Brown and Klaravich Stables. Another of that crop of 2017 is Kinross, who has proved to be one of his sire's most talented and hardiest campaigners. Across seven seasons, Kinross has won 11 of his 35 races, including the G1 Qipco British Champion Sprint Stakes and the G1 Prix de la Foret. He also won back-to-back runnings of the G2 City Of York Stakes, which has subsequently been upgraded to Group 1 status.With a fairly even split of eight colts/geldings to six fillies among the pool of Group 1 winners, Kingman currently has four sons standing at stud in Europe, while Schnell Meister recently completed his second season at Japan's Shadai Stallion Station. Calyx, another first-crop eye-catcher when winning the G2 Coventry Stakes, stood for six seasons at Coolmore prior to his untimely death in May 2025. His son Sepals won last month's G1 Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield in Australia.Easily the most influential son of Invincible Spirit, Kingman's reach extends to South America, too, where the Royal Ascot winner and Juddmonte-bred Sangarius, a grandson of the brilliant Banks Hill, stands in Brazil. Sangarius is also now a stakes producer via his daughter Odalisca, winner of the G2 Grande Premio Francisco Villela de Paula Machado.Kingman, whose Classic-winning dam Zenda (Zamindar) is a half-sister to another stalwart of the Juddmonte stallion ranks in Oasis Dream, had just two yearlings on offer at this week's Orby Sale – a half-sister to Group 3 winner Arrest who sold for €180,000 and a colt from the family of Mehmas who made €400,000. He has stronger representation next week at Tattersalls, where his 27 yearlings in Book 1 include half-siblings to the Group 1 winners Eshaada, Jannah Rose and King Of Change, and a colt out of the G2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Frankly Darling (Frankel). It will be no surprise to see American buyers pay particular attention to his stock given that, as well as Domestic Spending, Kingman has been represented in the USA by the Grade II winners Technical Analysis, Public Sector, Serve The King and Redistricting, and Grade I runner-up Summer Romance. In the current sires' championship for Britain and Ireland, Kingman sits in fifth position behind Night Of Thunder, the late Wootton Bassett, Dubawi and Frankel. Elite names all. He is deservedly in the best of company. The post A Regal Century for Kingman appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.