Europe’s former champion first season sire Invincible Spirit took his tally of G1 winners to nine when his top three-year-old colt Kingman won the G1 St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot on Tuesday.

Kingman (Invincible Spirit x Zenda, by Zamindar) scored by 2.25-lengths for trainer John Gosden over his arch rival Night Of Thunder (Dubawi) and Outstrip (Exceed And Excel).

The winner of the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas, Kingman took his record to five wins from sdix starts with his only loss being at the hand s of Night Of Thunder in the G1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.

Racing in the colours of Frankel's owner Khalid Abdullah, Kingman is from the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches winner Zenda, a half-sister to champion sprinter and leading sire Oasis Dream.

Kingman provided his dam with her second Royal Ascot winner after his Dansili half brother Remote won the G3 Tercentenary Stakes in 2013.

Gosden said: "I'd like to freshen him up now. We'll think about races like the Sussex and the Jacques le Marois and then back here the QEII."

"It's a great credit to Prince Khalid and Juddmonte, to their breeding operation.”

• TOP sprinting stallion Kyllachy claimed a quinella result in the G1 King's Stand Stakes after he sired the winner Sole Power and runner-up Stepper Point.

Sole Power, recording his second successive win in the King’s Stand, is one of three G1 winners by Kyllachy along with Dubai Golden Shaheen winner Krypton Factor and Dim Sum, winner of the Chairman's Sprint in Hong Kong.

Sole Power is out of the unraced Distant View mare Demerger, whose progeny also include the Group-placed Cornus and stakes placed Sotka.

Sole Power was sold as a yearling for £32,000 at the DBS St Leger Yearling Sale.

• Treve’’s sire Motivator got his Royal Ascot week off to a bright start when Domination won the G2 Ascot Stakes.

Arc winner Treve will be favourite to add Wednesday's G1 Prince of Wales's Stakes to her record.

Motivator is also the sire of Cafe Society, the young horse purchased by Gai Waterhouse at the inaugural Goffs London Sale on Monday for £330,000.

Domination is out of the winning Intikhab mare Soliza, a half-sister to the G1 Hong Kong Derby winner Helene Mascot, and was bought by Charles Byrnes for 36,000gns at the 2010 Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale.

• Kentucky-based freshman sire Quality Road recorded his first stakes success when Hootenanny won on day one at Royal Ascot.

The winner of the G1 Florida Derby, Quality Road is a son of Elusive Quality.

Hootenanny was bred by Barronstown Stud and is the first runner for the Hennessy mare More Hennessy, a half sister to G1 winner Cat Moves and Dance Hall Days.

Hootenanny was sold for $US120,000 as a foal at Keeneland and was resold for $75,000 to Cromwell Bloodstock as a yearling in the same ring.