Kingman colt serves notice for Peter Brant and Chad Brown in Florida

Another inclusion from Peter Brant’s first serious list of purchases at Tattersalls made a perfect if belated start to his career by winning at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday.

The American owner-breeder left with half a dozen individuals from Book 1 in 2017 and although not all were to prove successful signings, they did include Demarchelier - the fleetingly seen Grade 3 winner who will stand at Claiborne Farm next year.

Serve The King is one of a small handful of Kingmans to have been seen in the US so far, having been bought for 260,000gns.

He was bred by Philippa Cooper’s Normandie Stud from one of her best families, the colt’s dam being Lancashire Oaks runner-up Fallen In Love, a Galileo mare who is a half-sister to Coronation Stakes winner Fallen For You - herself the mother of Hungerford Stakes scorer and 2,600,000gns transfer Glorious Journey.

Brant's Tattersalls purchase Demarchelier is now a stallionCredit: Coglianese Photos

Fallen In Love has produced winners from both her only previous progeny to have appeared including Loving Things, who struck in a French Group 3.

Serve The King himself had evidently been held up, as he is already three and he was recently withdrawn from the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, but it looks as if trainer Chad Brown has something to work with.

He spotted the previously-raced Declaration Of War gelding Mungojerrie quite an advantage into the last furlong of eight but came through nicely to collar him close home.

The team might well have been seeing good things from the colt as White Birch returned to Tattersalls to collect his yearling Siyouni half-brother for 160,000gns just a couple of months ago.

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