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2 months ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Nancy Sexton |James Thomas
| Juddmonte has announced 2025 mating plans for its high-profile broodmare team, led by their two homebred Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winners Enable and Bluestocking. Both Arc winners now reside within the organisation’s European broodmare band at Banstead Manor Stud. Enable, a two-time Arc winner, will travel across the Channel for a visit to Siyouni, whilst Bluestocking, last year’s European champion older mare, will commence her stud career with a visit to Dubawi.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theownerbreeder.com | James Thomas
It has been 39 years since an independently owned stud housed the champion sire of Britain and Ireland. Needless to say, much has changed in the interim. Kris, who stood at Lord Howard de Walden’s Thornton Stud in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, was the last horse to achieve the feat and, in a sign of the times, he did so with just two crops of racing age to his name.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Nancy Sexton |James Thomas |Kristen Manning
Nancy Sexton with her unmissable annual round-up of the stallions who command the highest fees on the planetAs the home of Dubawi and Frankel, Britain again holds the aces when it comes to the world’s most expensive stallions. The pair remain at the head of the world’s elite on a figure of £350,000 – but they are closely followed on this occasion by Wootton Bassett, whose new fee of €300,000 makes him the most expensive sire in Ireland.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
theownerbreeder.com | James Thomas
Owner-breeders are, by their very nature, an optimistic bunch. But if they were handing out awards for the most enthusiastic around, Jeffrey Hobby would be a short-priced favourite to collect. The man behind Brightwalton Stud in West Berkshire is rarely seen without a pep in his step, and recent events have given him more reason to smile than usual. If he wasn’t high on life before, he certainly is now.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | James Thomas |Kristen Manning |Nicholas Godfrey |Martin Stevens
Ireland takes centre stage with Tattersalls Sapphire Sale [Nov 14], the first breeding stock auction of the European season, ahead of showpiece sale at Goffs with foal catalogue [Nov 18-21] before fillies and broodmares take over on Nov 22-23A strong closing quarter to the yearling sale circuit came as something of a welcome surprise, and means the bloodstock industry heads into breeding stock season with a renewed sense of optimism.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Nicholas Godfrey |Martin Stevens |James Thomas
Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Bluestocking, a three-time G1 winner in 2024, has been retired to stud and will join the broodmare band at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor base in the UK. The news comes soon after Juddmonte’s US champion racemare Idiomatic was also retired last week with a minor injury that forced her out of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Martin Stevens |James Thomas
Martin Stevens unpacks the major stories from the Weatherbys Return of Mares, the industry standard for all those with a stake in the bloodstock sphere The Weatherbys Return of Mares is required reading for professionals and pedigree buffs alike, featuring as it does breeding records for every Thoroughbred broodmare in Britain and Ireland.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | James Thomas
Ahead of the world-renowned Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 [Oct 8-10], we spotlight a popular scheme that adds to the value on offer at Europe’s premier Thoroughbred auctionBook 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale is renowned the world over. The auction’s roll of honour reads like a who’s who of major equine talent, with graduates ranging from multiple Classic winners to top-class two-year-olds, influential stallions through to budding blue hens.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
theownerbreeder.com | James Thomas
Every October the best of the best turn up at Tattersalls. Seven graduates of the blue-chip Book 1 section of the October Yearling Sale have won a Group 1 race this season alone. Broaden the parameters and we find the sale’s history has yielded 111 Group 1 winners that have claimed exactly 200 top-flight races between them. Make no mistake, this is the cream of the crop. But the best in this year’s catalogue might just be a cut above the event’s already high standard.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
theownerbreeder.com | James Thomas
When You Got To Me battled her way to victory in the Irish Oaks for Ralph Beckett, she also helped another trainer enter into elite company. The filly was co-bred by Mark Tompkins, who joins the likes of Jim Bolger and Aidan O’Brien in having not only trained a Classic winner, but having bred one too. “It’s unbelievable and people probably don’t appreciate how hard it is to breed a Classic winner,” says Tompkins, who brought an end to his 40-year training career in July 2019.
