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Schiaparelli stars at the Festival

Schiaparelli enjoyed a terrific week at the Cheltenham Festival courtesy of his three runner, including his first Festival winner Indefatigable in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Hurdle. Indefatigable has long been the poster girl for…

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Three Overbury-raised G1 runners set for Cheltenham

As always, the team at Overbury Stud is looking forward to a terrific week of action at our local track, Cheltenham. Extra excitement this week comes in the fact that three Grade 1 runners at…

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Cityscape’s Urban Icon returns with a cosy Listed victory

Urban Icon, the high-class son of Cityscape, returned to the racecourse for the first time since June 2019 to win the Listed Lady Wulfruna Stakes at Wolverhampton on 7 March. Officially rated 108 going into…

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Volta’s breeder gets Le Brivido off to a positive start

The first mare covered by Overbury Stud’s new stallion Le Brivido has been tested in foal. She is the young George Vancouver mare Espionne, who won over a mile at Chantilly as a three-year-old, and is…

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A baby brother for the best British-bred in Hong Kong

On the very same day that Ka Ying Star (Cityscape) took his form to a new high in the G1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup at Sha Tin, his dam foaled his full-brother at New England…

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Cityscape’s Ka Ying Star: rated the second-best miler in the world

Cityscape’s first-crop son Ka Ying Star ~ who won three of his four starts in Britain for Andrew Balding when named Urban Aspect ~ ran the world’s highest-rated miler Beauty Generation to half-a-length at level…

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Grade 1 honours for Thyme Hill

The Overbury Stud-bred Thyme Hill became the tenth individual Grade 1 winner for his sire Kayf Tara with a determined victory in the Betway Challow Novices’ Hurdle at Newbury on Saturday. Trained by Philip Hobbs…

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G1-winning miler for Cityscape

Cityscape earned his first top-level winner on Saturday when his four-year-old son Top One Scape landed the G1 Gran Premio Joaquin S. De Anchorena over a mile at San Isidro racecourse in Argentina. Bred by…

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James Cronin

All of us at Overbury Stud were greatly saddened to learn of the death of James Cronin during the December Mare Sale at Tattersalls. James worked for us during the previous week of the foal…

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