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Arboy Will is winner number two for Ardad

Ardad’s great start to the season continued on Monday when the John Bridger-trained Arboy Will defied his odds of 150/1 to make all at Windsor, beating red-hot favourite Zoltan Star. That favourite, trained by Richard…

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Ardad off the mark with first winner

Blue Collar Lad may have been bought for a blue-collar price but he is now a winner at the first time of asking, and gave his freshman sire Ardad his first winner of his stud…

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Our stud fees: reductions for 2021

Simon Sweeting, manager of Overbury Stud, has reined in the stud fees for several of his stallions ahead of the 2021 season. Ardad (who has stood three seasons at £6,500) and Cityscape (previously at £5,000) will…

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Overbury graduate William Bligh strikes at Haydock

The Overbury-bred William Bligh looked nicely progressive when winning by more than three lengths at Haydock for Chelsea Thoroughbreds and Ralph Beckett on Friday. The two-year-old colt is by Darley’s first-season sire Territories and is…

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A Grade 1 winner at the end of a good week

We took our biggest draft of foals to Tattersalls last week and it was also our strongest. The good results were led by foals by the French-based father and son Wootton Bassett and Almanzor. Both…

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52,000 gns Ardad filly leads the way

Overbury Stud’s Ardad filly was among the top lots at Tattersalls December Foal Sale on the first day. The February foal, the second foal of Stakes-placed sprinter Lastuce, was bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 52,000gns…

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Our 2020 fees: Kayf Tara leads the roster

New stallion Le Brivido starts at £7,000 and success-story Cityscape stays at £5,000. Nine-time Champion UK jumps sire Kayf Tara, who will be 26 in 2020, is the top attraction of Overbury Stud’s stallion roster, and…

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Ardad is a dad: his first foal is a ‘very strong’ filly

The first foal by Kodiac’s best ever Royal Ascot two-year-old, G2 winner Ardad, was born last night. She is a bay filly out of four-time winner and Stakes-performing juvenile Amitola, who is already the dam…

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Ardad and Jack Hobbs have first mares in foal

Overbury Stud’s two new stallions – top-class two-year-old Ardad and Irish Derby hero Jack Hobbs – are away to a flying start in their stud careers with both having their very first mares scanned in…

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