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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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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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Cheltenham stars for Kayf Tara and Cityscape

Thyme Hill and Urban Artist land back-type races at the November meeting. Kayf Tara’s exciting young hurdler Thyme Hill continued his winning run with victory in the Grade 2 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle as Cheltenham’s November…

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Jack Hobbs makes impressive Fairyhouse debut

Four first-crop foals sell for an average of €34,500. Members of the first crop of Jack Hobbs made a pleasing debut in the sales ring in Ireland with four of the five weanlings catalogued for…

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