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Happy New Year 05/01/09

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.

Over the Christmas holidays, Smokey Rye, a full-sister to Bertolini’s four-time juvenile winner Smokey Ryder, extended the family’s excellent recent record when winning over a mile at Lingfield to secure her third victory.

With so much excellent jump racing in Christmas week, Kayf Tara’s offspring have also been busy. Jau, a half -brother to one of the nation’s favourite flat horses, Sergeant Cecil, announced his arrival on the National Hunt scene when winning the Wincanton Boxing Day bumper in tenacious fashion.

Despite his illustrious sibling, the five-year-old was overlooked in the betting market on his racecourse debut and was sent off at 33/1. The Anthony Honeyball-trained gelding is unlikely to be offered at such generous odds again after taking the lead turning for home and battling up the straight alongside King’s Legacy, the even-money favourite from Paul Nicholls’ yard, and eventually getting the better of him within the last 100 yards.  Out of the Touching Wood mare Jadidh, Jau is still owned by his breeder Susan Brimble and was raised at Overbury Stud.

Jau’s victory sealed a memorable Boxing Day for Kayf Tara’s runners after the highly regarded Micheal Flips obliged in the opening race at Kempton to win by seven lengths under Champion jockey A P McCoy. Bought at Brightwells’ April sale at Cheltenham, Micheal Flips, then a winning point-to-pointer, changed hands for £200,000. He has now won three races from four starts and is considered a live contender for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

Later in the week, the tenacious mare Give It Time recorded her third Listed hurdles victory when winning at Leopardstown. She will now be given a short break in order to keep her fresh for her Cheltenham Festival target, the David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle.

J Henderson’s homebred Dream Garden recorded his second steeplechase victory when scoring by nine lengths at Leicester on 28 December and Planet Of Sound was another convincing winner of a novice chase, this time at Newbury, when romping home by seven lengths under Richard Johnson. The Philip Hobbs-trained seven-year-old runs for his breeder C G M Lloyd-Baker and has also won twice over hurdles and been placed a further four times in just nine starts.

SIMON’S BLOG

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).