Darley stallion King's Best wasted little time in adding his first Stakes winner of the new year, when his four-year-old son Cosmo Meadow ran out the convincing winner of the Listed Manyo Stakes at Kyoto in Japan on 5 January.
Beating the favourite Monte Kris S by two lengths, Cosmo Meadow became his sire’s 36th individual Black type winner.
Bred by Abergwaun Farms, he is out of the unraced Sadler’s Wells mare Angel Of The Gwaun, who is also dam of G3 winner Beauty O’Gwaun and another of King’s Best’s Black type performers in Angelonmyshoulder. The mare is herself a half-sister to G1 St Leger winner Millenary.
King’s Best enjoyed a hugely successful 2010, siring the record-breaking Derby hero Workforce and Japan Derby winner Eishin Flash among his 19 Stakes performers. He stands at Haras du Logis in Normandy at an unchanged fee of €15,000 October 1st terms.
