Meon Valley Stud

Marcstown Ltd and Andrew Rosen's 550,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 graduate Sacred Ground (Kingman), a John and Thady Gosden-trained daughter of G1 Oaks and G1 Prix de Royallieu heroine Anapurna (Frankel), made a winning debut with a last-to-first effort in Monday's bettingsites.co.uk Betting Sites Fillies' Novice Stakes at Great Yarmouth. "It was a very pleasing debut and I thought there was plenty to like and plenty to build on," said William Buick. "She was quite professional and knew her job pretty well. She's a beautifully bred filly and is only...

Deuce Again, the dam of this year's G1 Champion Hurdle heroine Golden Ace, has been added to the Goffs December NH Sale, which takes place from December 8-11. She will be offered in foal to Overbury Stud's Golden Horn, who is also the sire of Jeremy Scott's high-class mare. The 14-year-old daughter of Dubawi is owned by Meon Valley Stud and will be consigned at Goffs by Stephen Kemble Bloodstock. The Champion Hurdle marked a second consecutive Cheltenham Festival success for Golden Ace, who also won the G2 Mares Novices'...

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-bred horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday's Observations features a daughter of the dual Group 1 winner Izzi Top. 6.15 Kempton, Novice, 2yo, 2yo, f, 7fT IZZ'NT SHE HOT (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) is the ninth foal out of Meon Valley's Pretty Polly and Jean Romanet heroine Izzi Top (Pivotal), whose three black-type performers...

Kayf Tara (GB), who was three times crowned champion stayer on the Flat before forging a successful career as a National Hunt stallion, has died at Overbury Stud at the age of 28. An announcement made by the Gloucestershire-based stud on Thursday stated that Kayf Tara "died peacefully in his paddock this morning following the routine he'd had since arriving at Overbury Stud". He had been retired from covering duties in 2020 as his fertility waned. Kayf Tara's first ever winner was noteworthy for being in the Listed Ballymacoll Stud...

Acquired by connections for £1.2-million at Goffs' London sale in June, former Andrew Balding-trained G1 Derby runner-up Hoo Ya Mal (GB) (Territories {Ire}--Sensationally {GB}, by Montjeu {Ire}) celebrated a first victory in six starts since annexing York's Convivial Maiden last term with an impressive tally for trainer George Boughey in Saturday's G3 William Hill March S., staged in memory of John Dunlop, at Goodwood. The G1 St Leger, G1 Irish St Leger and G1 Melbourne Cup entry tanked forward to track the tempo in second after the initial exchanges of...

Classic heroine Anapurna (GB) (Frankel {GB}) will be covered by Juddmonte's Kingman (GB) in 2022, Meon Valley Stud confirmed to the TDN. Bred by Meon Valley Stud and raced by Helena Springfield Ltd., the bay captured the G1 Investec Oaks in only her fourth start. She added the G1 Qatar Prix de Royallieu later in 2019 and was top of her division in France that year. The daughter of listed winner, G1 Yorkshire Oaks second and G1 Meon Valley Stud Mile third Dash To The Top (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) is...

Meon Valley Stud's foaling season has got off to the best possible start with the arrival of the first foal for the 2019 Oaks winner Anapurna (GB). The daughter of Frankel (GB) produced a chestnut filly by Lope De Vega (Ire) at the Hampshire farm early on Monday morning. "As you can imagine we're absolutely delighted," said Meon Valley Stud owner Mark Weinfeld. "You never know what's going to happen, so to have a filly as her first foal is fantastic. She arrived at six o'clock this morning and she's...

A sea of blue dominated winner's enclosures in Britain and France this week, largely owing to the successful season currently being enjoyed by Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation and Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell team. The brothers occupy the top two slots in the owners' table in Britain, and Godolphin is also currently the leading owner in France. While Sheikh Mohammed has a significant number of horses in Chantilly with Andre Fabre, who oversaw the successful return of France's champion 2-year-old of last year, Earthlight (Ire) (Shamardal), in the Listed Prix Kistena, it...