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-old mare 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.