Group 1 winning sprinter Twilight Son will continue his career as a stud in Ireland following his purchase by Michael Shefflin and Yousef Arhim, and will stand at Shefflin’s Annshoon Stud in County Kilkenny.

The 12-year-old son of Kyllachy, who won the Haydock Sprint Cup and the Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot, will be available for a fee of €5,000.

“He should be a great addition to the Irish stud ranks,” Shefflin said. “He is a proven commercial stallion and of an affordable level for breeders.”

Since his time at Cheveley Park Stud, Twilight Son has sired three Group winners, seven horses that have had success at Listed and Twilight Calls level, the Group 1 runner-up in the King’s Stand and the Group 2 Temple Stakes.

Twilight Son’s top performers are multiple Group 3 winner Aria Importante, Twilight Jet, who was Group 3 winner at two and three for Michael O’Callaghan, and Twilight Spinner. He was successful in the Group 3 Athasi Stakes for Joseph O’Brien, having previously won the Listed Cecil Frail Stakes when trained by David O’Meara.

With a healthy number of colts and yearlings in the field, and promising performers on the track this season, Shefflin believes there is more to come for Twilight Son.

He added: “This year alone he has sired three listed winners and there are 52 two-year-olds who will compete for him next year, so he has a lot going for him.”

Those listed winners include Cheveley Park’s homebred filly Vetiver, who won the Queen Charlotte Fillies’ Stakes in July for Andrew Balding, having beaten in the Eternal Stakes and been third in the Group 3 Scepter Fillies’ Stakes last season.

Their three-year-old daughter Beautiful Diamond added the Land O’Burns Fillies’ Stakes to her victory in last year’s Harry Rosebery Stakes and the filly, trained by Karl Burke for Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum, has been placed in the Queen . María, Zafiro and Casa Palacio stakes.

Twilight Son’s new stakes winner is another Cheveley Park homebred filly, Sunfall, who recently had success in the October Stakes at Ascot. The three-year-old daughter is out of the Dark Angel mare Volition, as is Twilight Son’s highly desirable third Ingabelle Stakes, while Beautiful Diamond is out of Dark Angel’s son Lethal Force as her broodmare sire. .

That line, along with those of Danehill and Invincible Spirit, has been particularly fruitful for twilight sonwho was trained by Henry Candy to win six of his ten starts.

He was also second to Muhaarar in the Group 1 British Championship Sprint Stakes and that stallion is the sire of Twilight Son’s half-brother Run To Freedom, who won twice at Listed level and was runner-up to Shaquille in the Cup. of July and against Kinross. in the British Champions Sprint for Candy.

Another half-brother, Music Master, won the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes and was third in the Sprint Cup, while his half-sister Spring Fling was successful in the Listed Land O’Burns Fillies’ Stakes.

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