Juddmonte have announced that their Group 1 Lockinge Stakes winner Lead Artist has been retired to stand at Banstead Manor Stud next year.

A homebred son of Dubawi, alongside Lead Artist's success in this year's Lockinge Stakes at Newbury he also claimed victories in the Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes and the Group 3 Darley Stakes as a three-year-old.

Lead Artist is out for the Prix Sandringham winner Obligate, who finished third in the Prix Rothschild.

Juddmonte UK general manager Simon Mockridge said: "Lead Artist represents a fantastic opportunity to further strengthen our stallion roster.

"The extremely talented Group 1-winning son of Dubawi is a product of Juddmonte's most prolific family, that of blue hen mare Hasili, herself dam of five individual Group 1 winners as well as the influential stallion, Dansili.

"Lead Artist is an outstanding physical with great balance, strength and movement all attributes which will appeal to the commercial breeder."

John Gosden added: "Lead Artist is a very powerful and well-balanced miler from a superb family."