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07/07/10 - Monsun’s five-time G1-winning son to stand along side Kayf Tara
02/07/10 - Wotsthehurry dashes home to score at Warwick
30/06/10 - Seven lots sold for an average of €45,250 at Derby Sale
17/06/10 - Magic Casement scores by two and a half lengths on debut
14/6/10 - Bertolini three-year-old scoops big pot at York’s Timeform day
Derby day success for speedy son of Bertolini
12/05/10 - Second win in four days for ultra-tough Prime Defender
08/05/10 - Kayf Tara and Bertolini represented by winners on the same card
25/04/10 - Rosina Grey salutes at Bath on second start
21/04/10 - Planet of Sound lifts the Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup
Juice wins the New Zealand Bloodstock Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes
G2 victory for Megastar in the Champion bumper
08/04/10 - Grade Two winner and Grade One runner-up for Kayf Tara
31/03/10 - Dam of Bertolini’s dual Group Three winner produces filly at Sanfield Stud
24/03/10 – Two-year-olds by the Overbury stallion come under orders on first weekend of Flat season
22/03/10 - Bertolini’s game son finishes in the money for the 29th time; Proclamation’s first runners this weekend
15/03/10 - The leading all-weather sire in Britain and Ireland keeps firing in winners all around the world
08/03/10 - The Overbury resident has a strong contingent set to line up for jump racing’s extravaganza, which starts next Tuesday
04/03/10 – Sagamix three-year-old Tous Les Matins wins on the flat in France
02/03/10 - Another trio of victories for Kayf Tara’s offspring; two black type performers for Bertolini
21/02/10 - Son of Sagamix continues winning ways at Punchestown to book Festival trip
15/02/10 - Alfie Sherrin, Tarabaloo and Tom O’Tara successful at Newbury, Ayr and Warwick
6/2/10 - Overbury-bred son of Kayf Tara heads to Liverpool after hurdles win; Mrs Fawlty is faultless at Towcester
28/01/10 - Currently top of the all-weather sires’ list, Bertolini’s runners a force to be reckoned with all year round
28/01/10 - The 2010 sales circuit kicks off at Doncaster where Britain’s leading jumps sire is well represented
24/1/10 - Son of Sagamix lands decent novice hurdle at Haydock
18/1/10 - The thaw arrived in time to allow jump racing to proceed at Kempton, where two sons of Kayf Tara stole the show.
13/01/10 - We know him as England’s most successful jumps stallion but the Overbury resident is now also an artist’s muse
4/1/10 - In a record for any British-based stallion, Bertolini has sired 117 juvenile winners from five crops
Kayf Tara six-year-old romps to fitting triumph in the Mandarin Chase
Four-year-old son of Sagamix adds to his bumper success
Arc winner and rising jumps sire relocates to Britain
New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale for two-year-olds took place on 17 November with a colt by Bertolini (lot 240) fetching the top price of $400,000 (£177,000).
Kayf Tara once again more than held his own against the Irish-based jumps stallions when his foals went through the ring at Tattersalls Ireland’s National Hunt sale. Nineteen of his weanlings sold for an average of €27,605, a figure five and a half times his covering fee in 2009 of £4,500.
Planet of Sound made a stunning seasonal debut to record his first stakes victory in the G2 Haldon Gold Cup at Exeter. The seven-year-old son of Kayf Tara saw off a quality field, which included Twist Magic, Ashley Brook and Nacarat, to land the two-mile chase by three-and-a-half lengths from Cornas.
Venalmar (from Kayf Tara's first crop), who missed all of last season due to leg trouble, will have his first run over fences at Thurles on Thursday.
Our stud fees for the coming season have now been agreed, and remain unchanged from 2009.
Tattersalls Ireland’s National Hunt Sale runs from 9 to 13 November and features a host of foals by Kayf Tara emanating from some of the best jumping families in the studbook.
Bertolini two-year-old Beat Surrender took his earnings past the £50,000 mark on Sunday when making every yard of the running to land the six-furlong Birdcatcher Nursery at Naas.
His performance led the Racing Post’s analyst to describe him as ‘a horse with speed and guts and the frame to make up into a nice three-year-old, it´s quite likely that we are yet to see the best of him’.
Another batch of Proclamation’s first yearlings were put to the commercial test at Tattersalls this week and passed with flying colours. All six in Book 2 sold for an average of 22,900gns – more than five times his covering fee in 2007.
Proclamation had two yearlings catalogued at last week’s Goffs’ Orby Sale and both delivered decent returns to give their sire an average of £11,000 for eight sold since the start of the autumn sales.
Kayf Tara mare Fit To Drive recorded her third win in fine style on 25 September when breaking the track record at Worcester in the two-mile handicap chase.
Jozafeen, just touched off as favourite in a 7f maiden last time out, drops down half-a-furlong and goes up in class for her next assignment – in Europe’s richest race for juvenile fillies, he Watership Down Stud Stakes. The homebred daughter of Zafeen, who was short-headed in her penultimate start, carries the colours of her breeder, Mrs C Steel.
We’re extremely grateful to eagle-eyed Zafeen fan Jørgen Skjødt from Denmark, who contacted us to let is know that Zafeen has now sired six winners, courtesy of the three-length victory of Zafire at Klampenborg on 6 September. The Swedish-owned colt is out of Atticus and has finished placed on his two other starts to date.
Secret Queen became the fifth winner for Zafeen when running out the easy winner of a six-furlong maiden at Redcar to score by seven lengths.
With many of the leading jumping yards having hosted open days in recent weeks, thoughts are already starting to turn towards the National Hunt season, which for many does not really swing into action in any meaningful way until October.
Court Gown added to the list of winners by first-crop sire Zafeen with success at Redcar over seven furlongs on Saturday, 29 August.
Zafeereli became Zafeen’s first ever winner on Easter Monday and has since taken his tally of victories to three from only six starts.
The Darley-bred Dahakaa became the most recent of Bertolini’s juvenile winners when scoring by a length and a quarter at Wolverhampton on 10 August. The Michael Jarvis-trained colt was the second of Bertolini’s winners out of a mare by Dubai Millennium in just three days after Tremolo made a winning debut over six furlongs in Japan.
Bertolini sired three new two-year-old winners in two days this week with his juveniles winning over five, six and seven furlongs at Musselburgh, Leicester and Goodwood.
First-season sire Zafeen has been represented by three winners so far this season and it will be no surprise to see that number grow significantly in the second half of the season as he has also had a number of placed horses who have given strong hints that they too will soon be off the mark.
School may be out for summer but for headmaster Clive Ashby, work at The Elms School never abates. Once the pupils have left for the holidays, there is still the small matter of looking after six thoroughbred mares and their offspring and herds of Hereford cattle and Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs.
The victory of Huygens at Folkestone on 26 June brought up the third winner for his first-crop sire Zafeen, who has also been successful with Zafeereli in France and first-time-out scorer Grand Zafeen.
Jumping may be taking a back seat to the flat at this time of the year but the sales season never ends and Kayf Tara has once again been making headlines at Tattersalls Ireland’s Derby Sale.
Bertolini’s winning spree continued with ten winners in the week between 13 and 20 June – and once again they were spread across the globe, this time in eight different countries.
Bertolini made a fine start to the week with four winners in four different countries and in two hemispheres on Monday.
Two Overbury Stud graduates ran placed in the Oaks d’Italia on Sunday with Diktat three-year-old Wadaat being caught on the line after a brave effort to finish runner-up by a nose. Fellow British-born Quiza Quiza Quiza finished third.
A colt by Bertolini out of Astuti (Waajib) was the top lot of the Goresbridge breeze-up sale, which brought the curtain down on the two-year-old sales season at Gowran Park yesterday.
With four winners and a 40 per cent winners to runners ratio, Bertolini is top of the table for leading sires of two-year-olds but then that should come as no surprise. Ever since Bertolini started having runners, his juveniles have done an excellent job in advertising their sire’s considerable merits to breeders.
The admirable Kayf Aramis posted arguably his finest victory to date when routing his rivals by 13 lengths at York to win the Ripleycollection.com Stakes for the third time.
No sooner has the brand new jumps season started than up springs another bumper winner for Kayf Tara. Five-year-old gelding Double Expresso now holds the distinction of being his sire’s first winner for the 2009/10 campaign having saluted first time out at Southwell on 29 April.
Zafeen recorded his second winner of the campaign when his daughter Grand Zafeen scored by half a length in the five-furlong fillies’ maiden at Pontefract on Monday in the colours formerly carried by both her sire and dam.
Zafeereli became his sire’s first ever winner when scoring by two lengths in the 900m Prix Illinois II at Saint-Cloud on Easter Monday.
Bertolini’s two-year-olds have never hung around and this season looks to be no exception as he already has two winners on the board courtesy of This Is Real and Monalini.
Bertolini’s five-year-old son Prime Defender marked the start of the official flat turf season in fine style with victory in the Listed Cammidge Trophy at Doncaster on Saturday.
Kayf Aramis’ bold front-running victory in the Listed Pertemps Final Handicap Hurdle marked the first winner at the Cheltenham Festival for his sire Kayf Tara and also for owner/breeder Isobel Phipps Coltman and jockey Aidan Coleman.
It was on Guineas weekend in May 2005 that Donna Blini dropped the first hint of her talents. From the first crop of Bertolini, the two-year-old filly won a five-furlong Newmarket maiden on her racecourse debut and would return to the Rowley Mile twice more that year to add the G2 Cherry Hinton Stakes and the G1 Cheveley Park Stakes to her extremely impressive résumé.
Kayf Tara seven-year-old Clan Tara made all when securing a brave victory in the G2 Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle at Thurles on Thursday.
Suzy Smith won last year’s Ascot Stakes at the Royal meeting with Missoula and is represented this jumps season by the admirably tough Amigayle but if there is one mare that has put the young Sussex trainer firmly on the map it has to be Material World. The 11-year-old retired last year with nearly £100,000 in career earnings accumulated through five wins and ten places – including missing out at the Cheltenham Festival by the narrowest of margins – from her 19 races. Her achievements are made all the more remarkable by the fact that Material World had only one eye, after injuring her left eye in a gallops accident as a four-year-old and eventually having to have it removed.
On Sunday, Alfie Sherrin romped clear of his rivals at Fontwell to maintain his unbeaten record, his three victories coming in a point-to-point, a bumper and, most recently, a novices’ hurdle. The rangey dark brown gelding, who is named after the former point-to-point commentator, looks every bit a chaser in the making and, as we have seen this season, Kayf Tara’s offspring show just as much talent over the larger obstacles as they have done in bumpers and over hurdles
Carruthers jumped his way into joint-favouritism for the RSA Chase at the Cheltenham Festival with a superlative display in the G2 Sodexho Reynoldstown Novices’ Chase at Ascot on Saturday, 14 February, as Tarablaze made it a G2 double for Kayf Tara and Tarateeno scored at Wincanton.
An article in today’s Racing Post shows Kayf Tara to be the leading British-based sire of bumper winners. From September 2007 he has sired 21 winners and 30 place-getters of National Hunt flat races, among them the highly promising Grade Two winner Mad Max and Cheltenham Champion Bumper hopeful Jau, who is a half-brother to Sergeant Cecil.
Bertolini six-year-old Suits Me has carved a reputation for being thoroughly tough and durable and so he proved again on Tuesday when making all to win in the Listed Mill Wood Winter Open Stakes at Lingfield over ten furlongs.
Whether through snow or excessive heat, a huge amount of racing has been disrupted around the world but this has not stopped the global march of Bertolini’s offspring.
On 1 February he sired winners in Spain and Italy, while six days later in New Zealand, his daughter Puttanesca, who started the year in fine style with a Group Two win on New Year’s Day, again posted a valiant effort, this time finishing third in the G2 Sir Tristram Fillies’ Classic at Te Rapa.
With his first crop of runners now aged seven, Kayf Tara is being represented by more and more highly promising jumpers as evidenced by the raft of entries for his offspring at the Cheltenham Festival in March.
A valiant never-say-die effort from Kornati Kid at Wetherby on Saturday, 31 January saw him become his sire’s first winner of a Graded steeplechase when landing the G2 Towton Novices’ Chase over three miles and a furlong.
Bertolini finished on top of the all-weather sires’ table in Britain last season and there’s every indication that he will continue in similarly dominant fashion. 2009 has started well for the Overbury resident with five individual winners in the last few weeks. He’s well on the way to beating his tally of wins for last year, which stood at 47. Currently on 46, only the late Danetime is ahead of him (49) while Bertolini’s individual winners’ tally of 32 is second only to Cape Cross on 35.
The great form of many of Kayf Tara’s progeny continued throughout the first few weeks of the new year. Despite so much racing being lost to the cold snap, he has had six winners since the start of 2009.
2009 got off to a flying start for the Overbury stallions when Bertolini recorded his first Group winner on New Year’s Day at Ellerslie in New Zealand. Three-year-old filly Puttanesca won the G2 New Zealand Bloodstock Royal Stakes over 2000m following up on a good third in the G3 Eulogy Stakes in December.
A Bertolini half-brother to Racing Post Trophy runner-up Winged Cupid fetched the equivalent of €155,340 (£139,400) when selling at the Honk Kong International breeze-up sale over the weekend. The British-bred gelding is out of Hiwaayati, who has bred four winners to date and has a yearling colt by Zafeen and a filly foal by Proclamation.
Tot Of The Knar justified her odds-on favouritism when running out the 18-length winner of a 2m 5.5f novices’ hurdle at Sedgefield on Tuesday, 9 December.
Duke Of Miskin and Clan Tara, both former winning point-to-pointers, posted an Anglo/Irish double under rules for their sire Kayf Tara on Saturday, 6 December when winning at Chepstow and Navan respectively.
He’s already one of the most talked about horses so far this jumps season and Mad Max gave his growing number of fans not one moment of concern throughout a very promising first run over hurdles at Ascot under Barry Geraghty on Friday, 21 November.
A number of Proclamation’s first crop are set to go under the hammer next week, with 23 weanlings catalogued to sell at Tattersalls December Foal Sale, which starts on Tuesday, 25th November and runs until Saturday (29th).
The three-day Open Meeting at Cheltenham kicks off on Friday with the annual TBA National Hunt stallion parade before racing at 11am.
Juice, already a Group winner in New Zealand this season, ran a decent second in the G1 NZ Bloodstock 1,000 Guineas, when beaten just a length by Daffodil at Riccarton on Saturday, 8 November
Bertolini, the sire of a Group One-winning juvenile from his first crop, will return to Overbury Stud, where he started his stud career in 2002. The son of Danzig will stand at a fee of £4,000 (October 1, Special Live Foal) for the 2009 breeding season
Bertolini’s story began here at Overbury Stud and we’re delighted that he has returned for the 2009 breeding season.
Michael Flips, a winning point-to-pointer who was bought for 200,000gns at Brightwells’ Cheltenham sale in April, made a winning debut under rules when scoring by six lengths in a maiden hurdle at Stratford on Saturday, 25 October.
After an extraordinarily buoyant Book 1 at Tattersalls October Sale, trade was patchy during the three days of Book 2 (13-15 October) but Zafeen, whose first crop yearlings are selling this year, fared extremely well in the circumstances, returning an average of 35,000gns.
Give It Time notched her third victory and second at Listed level when scoring by nine lengths in the Mares’ Hurdle at Punchestown on Thursday, 16 October.
Five year-old Kayf Tara mare Tara Two Hills made it two wins from two starts with an eight-length victory at Bangor-on-Dee on Saturday, 11 October.
Katies Tuitor landed another valuable hurdling prize on 27 September when winning the feature race on Market Rasen’s card and earning himself another £25,000 in prize-money.
Not many breeders can claim a clean sweep of winners to runners but Jeremy Hinds currently finds himself in that enviable position.
As the yearling sales season progresses, another 17 yearlings from the first crop of Zafeen are set to pass through the ring in September and October.
It’s no secret that Kayf Tara can produce decent flat horses: his first-crop daughter Ruby Wine showed us that when winning a Listed race at Newbury as a three-year-old.
The St Leger Yearling Sale, which takes place from 26 to 28 August, is the first of its kind in the calendar on British soil and has become a notable source of precocious juveniles.
Whether winter or summer, Kayf Tara just keeps siring winners and the latest is Listed victor Katies Tuitor, who won the Summer Hurdle Handicap by four lengths on Market Rasen’s biggest day.
Legendary dancer and film star Cyd Charisse died last month but her name lives on through a six-year-old Kayf Tara mare who has now notched three wins over hurdles.
A three-year-old Kayf Tara gelding fetched €160,000 when sharing top billing after the first day’s trade at Tattersalls Ireland’s Derby Sale.
For some people it’s about the fashion, for others it’s the swanky picnics but for those serious about top-class flat racing, no meeting typifies the British flat scene at its very best more perfectly than Royal Ascot.
The 2007/08 jumps season will be remembered by us here at Overbury Stud as the year that Kayf Tara truly made his mark as a stallion to follow on the National Hunt scene. He finished the season as sire of 28 individual winners of 48 races, who amassed £350,462 in prize-money between them and put Kayf Tara in second position in the British jumps sires’ table. Not bad considering his eldest runners are still only six.
There’s never a quiet time for sales companies – the spring breeze-ups may have concluded but inspection of prospective yearlings for this autumn’s sales is now underway and among those currently under consideration are members of Zafeen’s first crop.
Mad Max’s eight-length G2 bumper win at Newbury in February marked him out as a horse with a big future. And we mean big.
Six-year-old Kayf Tara mare Inghwung has been in wonderful form all season and recorded her third win of the year at Fontwell on 24 April.
Touch Of Irish came close to being Kayf Tara’s fifth stakes winner of the season when finishing runner-up in Aintree’s G2 Champion Bumper on Grand National day.
Breeders with mares due to foal in April or later still have time to book in to any of the stallions we have standing here at Overbury Stud.
That was the opinion of trainer Mouse Morris directly after Venalmar’s agonisingly narrow defeat in the G1 Ballymore Properties Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham last Friday.
Two Proclamation fillies born within hours of each other at Ashbrittle Stud are both nursing from the same mare after one lost her dam within minutes of her birth on 18 February.
The late Cathal Ryan, who died last December, tasted success as an owner and breeder at the highest level both on the flat and over jumps. Cork All Star, who won the 2007 Champion Bumper, returns to Cheltenham in just under two weeks for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle but it is though Proclamation that Ryan’s name is guaranteed to remain linked with thoroughbred breeding for years to come.
With entries now complete for the novice and handicap hurdle contests at the Cheltenham Festival, Kayf Tara has six runners heading to Prestbury Park with great chances.
Stravara, who first visited the winner’s enclosure as a two-year-old when winning on only his third start, added a hurdles victory to his resumé with success at Warwick on Saturday, 9 February.
For those breeders who have not yet had a chance to visit Overbury Stud to see the stallions, Proclamation and Zafeen will be on show in the ring at Tattersalls on Thursday, 7 February at 10am, prior to the February Sale. For closer inspection, they will be stabled in Further Paddocks at the sales complex.
Kayf Tara six-year-old Cryptic made it three wins from five runs under rules with a convincing victory at Wincanton on 31 January. He will now be aimed at the Cheltenham Festival and holds entries in the Pertemps Final and three-mile novice hurdle. Earth Planet, who won a Bumper on his debut and is also by Kayf Tara, was second and has now been placed five times.
‘The sire is on fire at the moment,’ said Frannie Woods, purchaser of the session-topping 35,000gns Kayf Tara two-year-old on day two of Doncaster’s January Sale, and we couldn’t have put it better ourselves.
Mince Pie For Starters, Lord Oaksey’s hugely enjoyable autobiography, concluded with the former amateur rider and racing journalist hoping his future enjoyment from racing would centre on the first foal of his broodmare Plaid Maid.
Space Mission and Mad Max became the latest success stories in what is fast becoming a boom season for his sire Kayf Tara, when both six-year-olds scored with ease this week.
It has been a happy new year for Overbury Stud protégés, with three horses raised at the stud having saluted the judge within a week in early January.
27-7-10
After a quiet start to the flat season our little band of broodmares have been having some excellent results on the racecourse.
Start Right (out of Time Crystal) has won at Goodwood today having won in good style at Newmarket 10 days ago. He is trained by my old boss Luca Cumani so it is cheering to know that he is now helping me!
Common Touch (out of Flying Finish) won on his first trip to the races at York last saturday. He stumbled coming out of the stalls but still won well and the Racing Post analyst gave him a very positive write up.
Boss's Destination (out of Blushing Sunrise) won at Newcastle in June and has been placed since.
Lastly Mabait - also trained by Luca Cumani - won in a dead heat a listed race on Sunday. We sold him as a foal for his breeder Clive Ashby who is soon to move and as a result is sending Mabait's dam Czarna Rosa to live at Overbury. The other person who will have been pleased with that win is David Redvers who bought the full brother as a foal from us last December at what is increasingly looking like a cheap price!
I should also mention Sasheen (Out of Sashay) who was second at Windsor last night after a long lay off. She was bred by Edward Young and was conceived and raised at Overbury - and looks like she will win in the not too distant future.
19-7-10
I had a long held appointment to visit a friend and breeder near Malvern last Friday. He bred the Luca Cumani trained Mabait, who was sold as a foal through Overbury and he wanted to discuss this years foals so that he could make some plans.
I was a little bit late setting out (not unusual for me) and when I was 1/2 way there rang to say I would be about 10 minutes late. Not long after this my car started to wobble a bit and behave strangely. When I stopped at a junction and had some serious wheel spin pulling away I realised there must be a problem and sure enough when I pulled over there was a flat tyre. Changing a wheel isn't normally a problem but I was in a rush and when I came to take the nuts off the wheel I must have tried too hard and the wrench broke in my hands. At this point I thought I would never make the appointment and set off, still with a flat tyre, back towards home. Luckily I came across an agricultural engineers after a couple of miles and they were able to lend me what I needed.
The foals I saw were certainly worth the effort in getting there but in futre I think I will be driving a different vehicle to important appointments!
The major excitement of last week was the confirmation that Schiaparelli would be joining our stallion roster next year. I have been following him and holding my hand up up to stand him for 2
years now so I hope he proves as popular with breeders as I imagine he will be.
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