M ay marks the end of the foaling season for Watership Down and Kiltinan Castle. Thankfully, it’s been a successful season with lots of healthy foals on the ground. We are very grateful for the staff who have worked with true professionalism during the Covid-19 pandemic. They have made sure that the guidelines are [...]
I t's fantastic to have enjoyed some glorious weather this month, after what felt like a never-ending wet Winter. Spring has certainly sprung, and the foals on the ground are developing beautifully with the sun on their backs. The majority of mares have now foaled with the highlight being the much-anticipated birth of DAR [...]
T he stud season is in full flow and we’ve seen the arrival of some very exciting foals over the last couple of months with more yet to come. Arguably one of the most exciting broodmares in Europe THE FUGUE, foaled a cracking colt in late January by Shamardal. A mare who needs little [...]
T oo Darn Hot has picked up a career ending injury thought to have been sustained in his most recent victory in the Group 1 Qatar Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. He has undergone surgery at Newmarket Equine Hospital. Simon Marsh, Andrew and Madeleine Lloyd Webber’s Racing and Bloodstock Manager, said “Too Darn Hot has [...]
T oo Darn Hot gained a second successive Group 1 when taking the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood this afternoon. After losing his unbeaten record earlier this season, Too Darn Hot returned to the top-level winners’ enclosure last time out when dropped back to seven furlongs for the Prix Jean Prat. Back up to [...]
R oyal Intervention carried the colours of Lord Lloyd Webber to a valuable success in the Group 3 Summer Stakes at York on Friday. The daughter of Exceed and Excel deserved to get her head in front again following some decent efforts this term, including when fifth in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at [...]
T oo Darn Hot has returned to the winners’ enclosure with an emphatic success in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Deauville on Sunday. Last year’s champion juvenile had endured a frustrating campaign to date but bounced back in style under Frankie Dettori. He raced in the far side group for much of [...]
L ah Ti Dar got her 2019 campaign off to the best possible start with a hard-fought success in the Group 2 Middleton Stakes at York on Thursday afternoon. Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber’s homebred filly was dropping down to ten furlongs for the first time since winning her second start in Listed company at [...]
All at Kiltinan Castle Stud were delighted to welcome a filly foal out of So Mi Dar on Tuesday, February 5. The filly is by champion sire Galileo and is reported, along with her mother, to be doing well. So Mi Dar is a six-year-old daughter of Dubawi and multiple Group 1 winner Dar Re [...]
Watership Down Stud homebred Too Darn Hot has been confirmed as the European Champion Two-year-old of 2018. The World’s Best Racehorse Rankings, which were revealed this week, saw Too Darn Hot given a rating of 126, equal to that of Frankel and Dream Ahead back in 2010. Trained by John Gosden, the son of [...]
