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Last year's Blue Dimond Stakes winner will be syndicated by Twin Hills and Godolphin 

Daumier (Epaulette), winner of last year's Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), has been retired from racing and will stand at Twin Hills Stud this spring. 

"We are thrilled that Daumier is coming to Twin Hills. Precocious is the most overused word in the bloodstock dictionary, but Daumier was exactly that. He was just a brilliant two-year-old – arguably the best two year old colt of his year," said Olly Tait. 

"The Blue Diamond has produced stallions such as Redoute's Choice, Extreme Choice and more recently Written By. Like them, Daumier possessed two-year-old speed of the highest class." 

Bred and raced by Godolphin, Daumier is out of the Street Cry (Machiavellian) mare Illustrate. Trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman, he has raced eight times, winning the Listed Blue Diamond Preview (C&G) (1000m) on debut in January last year. He then finished third in the Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude (1100m) two weeks later before capturing the Blue Diamond Stakes on February 26. He also finished fourth in the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) and the Inglis' Sires (1200m). 

His Blue Diamond Stakes victory earnt him a Timeform rating of 113 and was the second highest rated colt of his generation behind Best Of Bordeaux (Snitzel). 

"We are very proud to have bred and raced Daumier and are very much looking forward to his stallion career at Twin Hills," said Vin Cox, Godolphin's managing director. 

"He is the product, on both sides of his pedigree, of decades of investment and hard work by the teams at Woodlands and Godolphin. He was a brilliant two-year-old and we will be supporting him with some lovely mares." 

Daumier will be syndicated by Twin Hills and Godolphin, who will maintain a significant interest in the son of Epaulette (Lonhro).