cossack retired to stand at stanton, near shifnal in shropshire at a fee of 10 guineas for the 1853-1854 season and was sold to mr. boythorpe and relocated to derbyshire in 1855. he stood as a stallion in england until 1857, when he was sold to the french imperial stud for 25,000 francs. the best of his offspring was gamester, a colt who won the st leger in 1856. another of his sons, alcibiade, won the grand national in 1865.