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Kevin Ryan’s 2023 Queen Anne winner Triple Time has retired from racing and will stand at Dalham Hall Stud from 2024.

Triple Time built on two promising initial efforts when getting off the mark by a staggering nine-and-a-half lengths in a Haydock novice event back in August 2021. The Kevin Ryan-trained runner quickly took the step up to Listed company in his stride when a comfortable winner of the Ascendant Stakes at the same venue a month later.

A setback ruled out Triple Time for much of his three-year-old campaign, but he returned to the track a year after that Listed success to land the Group 3 Superior Mile Stakes in authoritative style.

He disappointed when well-beaten in the Group 2 Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein at Longchamp on his final start as a three-year-old, but rewarded connections by keeping him in training at four with a sensational performance at Royal Ascot.

The beautifully-bred son of Frankel was sent off a rather unfancied 33/1 for his four-year-old reappearance in the Royal Ascot annual curtain raiser - the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes - but proved he had just what it takes to beat some of Europe's best milers when battling on bravely to deny top-class racemare Inspiral by a neck.

Triple Time retires as the highest-rated son of Frankel over a mile with an official rating of 121.

He is one of a remarkable six Black-Type winners out of Reem Three [Mark Of Esteem] and a half-brother to Champion mare and G1 winner Ajman Princess [Teofilo], plus the dam of Blue Point's record-breaking Group 1-winner Rosallion.

Sam Bullard, Director of stallions, said, "Triple Time's victory in the Queen Anne at Royal Ascot was the pinnacle of a superb career for this impeccably bred horse. He is from a truly outstanding female family and being an elite miler by Frankel, we think he will be very popular with breeders. We look forward to showing him at Dalham in the very near future".

A fee for Triple Time will be announced at a later date.