FOLLOWING careful consultation with the family, Juddmonte decided this week that Bluestocking (Camelot) should be retired to stud. In a stellar career, she never finished out of the first four in her 13 starts, and won three Group 1 races in 2024, culminating in her victory in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

While Juddmonte was announcing that Bluestocking “retires sound and healthy and will take up her next career at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud”, they also had the good news that their exciting three-year-old Kalpana (Study Of Man), will remain in training. Unraced at two, Kalpana was kept busy in 2024, running eight times, and she gave her sire a first Group 1 winner when she was successful in the British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes at Ascot.