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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.
With such success on the track, it’s no surprise that good returns in the sales ring have followed. At Brightwells’ Cheltenham Sale in April, six of his offspring sold for an average of £62,500, which equates to 25 times his covering fee. The highest priced of these was Michael Flips, a four-year-old winning point-to-pointer, who made 200,000gns when sold to Aiden Murphy, the man responsible for buying Kayf Tara’s brightest star to date, Venalmar, as a foal.
At Doncaster’s Spring Store Sale last week, nine of his youngsters changed hands for an average of £15,800. These included lot 132, a three-year-old out of the Northfields mare Norska, who has produced nine winners to date. Consigned by Little Lodge Farm Stud, the gelding has joined the stable of Nick Gifford after being purchased by the trainer for 34,000gns.
Lot 251, another three-year-old gelding from the family of top jumpers Gungadu and The Tsarevich and offered by Goldford Stud, fetched 30,000gns while Bobby O’Ryan went to 22,000gns for Wishesonthewind, a three-year-old filly out of hurdles winner Alcalali.
We’re proud of Kayf Tara’s superb record, which has been achieved with the help of all the breeders who supported him in his early years at stud. Not surprisingly, there are now many more breeders on both sides of the Irish Sea eager to use the horse described by Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder magazine as Britain’s “great white hope”.
They went on to say: “Kayf Tara, who had 107 runners compared with 303 for Presenting, is undoubtedly one to watch”. We couldn’t agree more.
16-8-10
Sadly the Hawk wing yearling filly had to put down 24 hours after her operation. She was in alot of pain which the vets couldn't reduce with drugs so they felt it was best to put her out of her misery. Although we are now left with just a very large bill for her care at least I know that everything that could have been done was done.
We are also going to be looking for a new permenant member of staff this autumn as Vikki Chorley is leaving us after 4 years to ride eventers. Vikki was in charge of one of the yards so is a senior member of staff and I expect will be hard to replace.
6-8-10
After reporting some Overbury bred winners last week we are now experiencing the flipside of breeding (or generally looking after livestock).
The yearling out of Flying Finsh - a filly by Hawk Wing - showed signs of colic on monday. She was checked by a vet who gave some pain killer and muscle relaxant. There was no sign of a twisted gut and she settled back to normal very quickly. All was well until wednesday morning when she again showed signs of colic, but this time her heart rate and temperature where raised. She went straight into the vets clinic where an infection in her gut - peritonitis - was confirmed. We had hoped that a heavy dose of antibiotisc might cure the problem but this morning she sickened quite rapidly. The vets advice was then there was no choise other than to operate and hope to find a problem. I have just been told that they have found an abscess on the outside of the gut which will have to be removed. Chance of sucess is rated at less than 50% and the operation is an expensive one. The only good thing is that if she survives there shouldn't be any recurring problems as a result of this.
In the meantime we just have to wait and hope.
(I'm away until the end of next week but will give a follow up on my return).
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