She never reached the giddy heights of Bob Emery's glamour mare Champagne, but the Cambridge breeder has spoken glowingly of Charmont in announcing her retirement.
"She won a Group 1 and I've only ever had two Group 1 winners so she's pretty special to me," Emery said. "She's a 6-year-oldmare now and she's got the pedigree so it makes sense she now becomes a broodmare."
By High Chaparral out of Champagne's Danehill daughter Martique, Charmont ends her career as a winner of four of her 25 starts, highlighted by her Group 1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes (1600m) success at Te Rapa in April.
Trained by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman at Cambridge, Charmont was either a stakes winner or stakes placed on eight further occasions, finishing third in the 2015 Group 1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) at Trentham.
After assessing all possible suitors, Emery has settled on Victorian stallion Written Tycoon, by Iglesia, as Charmont's first mating.
"She's got Danehill blood in her and I don't go for in-breeding, even though for her she's got Danehill on her female side and a mating with a Danehill blood stallion would be sex-balanced," Emery said.
"But I thought first-up with her, I would try and avoid Danehill altogether."
