All six lots at Doncaster are sold

Doncaster sale last week provided a successful outcome with all six lots offered being sold. We felt they were a very nice bunch of horses who slightly under sold in our expectations but we are delighted with the new purchasers and wish them all the very best of luck. All results can be found on the past sales page.

We are particularly delightly that Harry Dunlop of Windsor House Stables in Lambourn bought lot 326 a daughter of Spunger who Harry trained successfully for Barry and Janet before retiring to Hillwood for stud duties.We love this filly and think she has been very well bought by Harry. We wish him all the very best and we will be following with great interset her racing career.

All the sales yearlings are coming on well. Our next sale will be Book 1 at Tattersalls at the beginning of October.

Book 1 Colts enjoying their work

 

 

Duke of Marmalade ex Crimphill

 

 

Dubawi ex Beautiful Filly

 

 

Sixties Icon ex Aileen's Gift

 

 

Sales preparation is going well at Hillwood despite the never ending rain fall! Above are three Tattersalls Book 1 colts enjoying their work.

Tattersalls Books live on sales page

Our yearling drafts are now all live on our sales page. Pictures will appear two weeks out from sales. This time in two weeks our Doncaster yearlings will be strutting their stuff at the sales.

Its a big week for all our older foals as they will be weaned from their mummies. There is normally a few hours of shouting sounding a little like a group of toddlers at a party!! They soon settle down with their mates to enjoy the next stage of their lives.

Doncaster Yearling pictures go live

I am pleased to announce that the our draft for Doncaster now have their pictures live on our sale page. All six are a lovely bunch who have have had a straight forward preparation. They ship to the sales on Sunday 26th of August and will be ready to show first thing Monday morning.

Sales Preparation in full swing

New Approach ex Dubawi Surprise is enjoying his sale preparation

All our Tattersalls sales yearlings have finished their holidays and are in work preparing for the sales season. You can find the Doncaster and Tattersalls Book 1 lots and pedigrees on our sales page. We will post their photographs two weeks away from the sale dates.

Rain,rain and more rain!

Harry our new work rider!!

Our six Doncaster Yearlings are two weeks into their yearling preparation. They have started some light lungeing and are all doing well. It has been miserable wet weather but all the hosres have done very well during this period. All our Tattersalls yearlings are coming in the first week of August so fingers crossed they get some sunshine on their backs before then.

Never A Doubt has been scanned in foal to Royal Applause. This is our last cover of the year. The late foaling Makara and Charlecote will be rested this year. Most of the mares and foals have been turned out day and night but sadly the weather hasn't been too kind recently.

We are busy steam cleaning and painting boxes ready for the yearling prep season which will soon be upon us.

Two new arrivals

Charlecote and her Nayef colt

Makara gets a kiss from her Dutch Art filly.

We had a busy weekend with two foals arriving hours apart. Charlecote had a handsome big, bay colt by Nayef and Makara a lovely big chestnut filly by Dutch Art who is a full sister to Graphic Quest who is in traing with Mick Channon. Both foals and mums are doing well but would like a little sunshine please!!

Our three Breeze up horses ship to France tonight for the Arqana sales. We apologise for no pictures on our sale page but the weather has been against us. You can however view their pedigrees and also see some pictures of them in the gallery.

Craven Sales

We had a fantastic sale at the Tattersalls Craven last week selling all six lots we had to offer. All the results and purchasers can be viewed on the sale page.

All has been on the slow side in the maternity ward with Charlecote overdue to Nayef and Makara now due to Dutch Art. Rohlindi has been covered by Compton Place. We have some 16 day scans coming up in the next 10 days. Fingers crossed!!

Never A Doubt

Never a Doubt had a beautiful big filly on Wednesday night by Equiano.

Tafawut has been covered by Dutch Art and Jardin by Sir Percy.

The Craven Breeze up 2yr olds ship to Tattersalls tomorrow. They will have a practice breeze on the Monday with the important breeze happening on the Tuesday. The auction starts on Wednesday evening and concludes on the Thursday night.

Kempton Breeze Up Sale

We had a great start to the Breeze Up season selling lot 95 an Exceed and Excel colt for £60,000 to SackvilleDonald and he will go into training with Tom Dascombe. Our next sale is the Tattersalls Craven and our offered lots can be viewed on the sale page.

American Rouge has been scanned in foal to Sleeping Indian. Rohlindi visits Compton Place on Friday.

We are pleased to say our gallery page is now up and running. We will have a mixture of pictures ranging from foals to the Breeze up horses so please have a look.

Silca Chiave

Silca Chiave has had a striking chestnut filly by Teofilo.

Jardin had a smashing big colt by Nayef on Friday evening. Both mummy and baby are doing well!

Kempton bound Exceed and Excels profile picture has been posted on the sales page. The two week count down begins.

Spunger, Excultate Jubilate and Fascination Street have all had their foal heartbeat scans and all is well.

Exceed and Excel ex Gandini has his first Kempton gallop with Harrys help!

Busy week for Breezers

The Craven bound Shamardal ex Nilassiba filly under Gary Oliver

The Kempton bound Exceed and Excel ex Gandini Colt under Neil Chalmers

 Jonno Mills of Rabbah with Charlie inspect some of this years Breeze Up colts



Its also been a busy week on the mare front. Spunger has scanned in foal to Compton Place & Exultate Jubilate to Kheleyf. American Rouge has been covered by Sleeping Indian & Celebrity by Dutch Art.

Spring time

Barry Taylors Tafawut produced a striking chestnut filly on Saturday night. She is a great size for a first foal with a lovely white stripe down her face.

Our first pregnancy scan of the year was positive with Fascination Street being scanned in foal to Mount Nelson. We have two more scans later in the week.

It was with great sadness to learn that Janet Marsden passed away on Saturday after a very brave fight against cancer. Barry and Janets Spunger was successful in training with Harry Dunlop before retiring to Hillwood to become a mum. Janet loved her horses and Spunger loved her for the bags of apples she brought with her on her visits. Janets always smiling face will be very much missed and our thoughts are with Barry.

Breeding season begins

Barry and Janet Marsden's Spunger had a big,bay filly by Pastoral Pursuits on 26 January. Spunger has been covered by Compton Place and is due her scan next week. Below is Spunger's foal enjoying the warm February sunshine.

American Rouge had a cracking bay filly by Tobougg on 10 February.  She is due to be covered by Sleeping Indian.

Chris Buckley's Exultate Jubilate has been covered by Kheleyf and Fascination Street has been covered by Mount Nelson after both mares were rested last year.

Tafawut, in foal to Medicean, and Jardin, in foal to Nayef, are ladies in waiting and we hope to have more foal news very soon.

All the Breeze Up 2yr olds are stepping up in their work and look a very promising bunch. The Goffs Kempton sale is the first to take place on 3 April. We have an exciting  Exceed and Excel ex Gandini colt being offered from Hillwood Stud. Above is the Cape Cross colt ex Thiella colt enjoying his work.

Happy New Year

We would like to wish everyone a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

We are delighted with the foals that we bought in both Tattersalls and Goffs who have all settled in well.  The yard is still full with horses out of training, breakers and breeze up horses.  The last of the breakers and resting horses will be returning to their trainers by the end of the month.  It is then that the first mares are due to foal.  We aim to keep clients and followers up to date with foaling news and photographs on this page.

We are consigning both Spinning Lucy and Rohlindi at the Tattersalls February Sale.  Spinning Lucy is a two year old stakes winning mare in foal to Aqlaam whose first foals were very well received at the foal sales.  Rohlindi is a placed daughter of Barry Taylor's wonderful mare Rohita.  She is being sold as a filly in training and is a racing or broodmare prospect.