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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.
The five-year-old gelding has been a consistent performer right from the start, winning over a mile at two on only his second start for his breeder Brendan Duke, who trained him until the end of last season. It didn’t take long to show his prowess over hurdles, when winning a juvenile novices’ hurdle at Kempton by 20 lengths, swiftly followed up by victory at Sandown. These two performances saw him leap to prominence in the Triumph Hurdle betting market. Swerving Cheltenham, he ran fourth to the talented dual-purpose performer Punjabi in the G1 Ballymore Properties Champion 4-Y-O Hurdle at Punchestown last spring.
“I’m not a fan of the Triumph Hurdle and I trained him with a view to what’s happening now,” says Duke. “You’ll be hearing a lot about this horse as there’s plenty more to come from him. He went to the sales last November and I told Charlie Mann he was a real prospect. I’m delighted for him.”
Katies Tuitor has continued in fine form this spring, finishing a neck behind Buster Hyvonen at Fakenham first up before a two-length win at Cheltenham in April.
Out of the once-raced Millfontaine mare Penny Gold, Katies Tuitor is from Kayf Tara’s second crop. His dam has since died but his breeder also has two half-sisters to him, one of whom is being bred from and another, by Forzando, who is only three and yet to race.
“I hope to send Katies Tuitor’s half-sister to Kayf Tara next year. I used him initially as I thought he was a high-class racehorse and I felt that no stallion in the book had a stronger pedigree. He’s fantastic value,” says Duke.
Katies Tuitor joins Venalmar, Carruthers, Mad Max and Give It Time on the list of Kayf Tara’s National Hunt Stakes roll of honour, while Ruby Wine was his first ever Stakes winner, landing a Listed contest at Newbury on the flat as a three-year-old. Along with these talented performers are the equally promising young jumps prospects Earth Planet, Touch Of Irish and Sigma Digital, who have all been placed at Graded level. Kayf Tara also celebrated his first French winner recently when the four-year-old Quel Ballistic won a hurdle race at La Rochelle on the west coast.
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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