Cheveley Park Stud

A pair of new Flat stallions--Son Of Rest (GB) (Pivotal {GB}-Hightime Heroine {Ire}, by Danetime {Ire}) and Flash Gordon (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}-Oasis Sunset {Ire}), by Oasis Dream {GB})--will stand at Paddy McCathy's Meelin Stud in West Cork. Son of Rest will stand for €3,000 and Flash Gordon will be offered at €1,500 for the 2021 season. "They are two great stamps of horses and I am delighted to have them for my first enterprise into Flat stallions," said McCathy. "I have been working to offer speed horses that could produce...

David Thompson CBE, the owner with his wife Patricia of Cheveley Park Stud in Newmarket, died on Dec. 29 from renal failure at the age of 84. A proudly patriotic man whose numerous successful racehorses sported the stud's red, white and blue colours, Thompson's significant involvement in British racing and breeding began in 1975 with his purchase of Newmarket's oldest stud farm, which was then in receivership. That same year Music Boy (GB), trained initially in Yorkshire by 'Snowy' Wainwright, became the Thompsons' first Group winner, in partnership with Ken...

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Today's Observations features half-siblings to two Group 1 winners. 1.35 Lingfield, Nov, £5,300, 2yo, f, 7f 1y (AWT) Cheveley Park Stud's hitherto unraced DEGREE (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is a homebred half-sister to G1 Falmouth S. and G1 Sun Chariot S. heroine Integral (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) out of G1 Matron...

With restrictions surrounding race meetings continuing in Britain, the Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale was relocated to Tattersalls HQ at Park Paddocks and it was a famous Newmarket name at the top of the buyers' list. Cheveley Park Stud, traditionally one of Britain's foremost owner-breeder operations on the Flat, has enjoyed increasing success with a clutch of well-selected jumpers in recent seasons, with the hugely exciting novice chaser Envoi Allen (Fr) (Muhtathir {GB}) at the head of the group. Two new recruits were added to the team on Thursday in the...

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Today's Observations features a half-sister to an American Grade I winner. 4.00 Chelmsford, Novice, £7,900, 2yo, 8f (AWT) TOP TABLE (GB) (War Front) is a notable debutante for Cheveley Park Stud, who bought her dam Mesa Fresca (Sky Mesa) for $2-million at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky 2017 November Mixed Sale....

There are two different and converging strands in the name of promising 2-year-old filly Potapova (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}-- Safina {GB}, by Pivotal {GB}): tennis memories and Russian themes. The convincing Chelmsford winner is out of Safina, also the family name of the brilliant Dinara Safina, former world number one tennis player, three-times losing finalist in Grand Slam events and sister of U.S. Open champion Marat Safin. Safina the mare is out of champion Russian Rhythm, and there are other glorious Russian names scattered in her female line, like Nijinsky...

This year will go down as one of the strangest in living memory. If in January you'd announced to owners and trainers that there would be no racing for two and a half months, it would have been met with widespread incredulity. But that was the situation in which British racing found itself in mid-March and, though the timing was a little off, it wasn't too dissimilar to how things used to be for the predominantly Flat racing heartland of Newmarket before the advent of all-weather racing through the winter...

Led again by champion sire Pivotal (GB) (Polar Falcon), Cheveley Park announced their 2021 stallion roster on Monday. Sire of two Group 1 winners among his quintet of black-type winners this term, the 27-year-old Pivotal will again stand for a private fee in 2021. As a broodmare sire, he is responsible for 14 black-type winners, four at the Group 1 level, just this year. Dutch Art (GB) (Medicean {GB}) will also again be at a private fee for 2021. Studs around the world are reducing fees due to the ongoing...

MG1SW One Master (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who won the 2018 and 2019 editions of the G1 Prix de la Foret on Arc Day, is on course for a third attempt, trainer William Haggas revealed. A winner of the G3 Oak Tree S. at Goodwood this July, the Lael Stables homebred has been runner-up in her past two starts-the G2 City of York S. on Aug. 22 and the Sept. 12 G2 Park S. at Doncaster last out. Haggas said, "She ran very well. She's just been unfortunate, but that's...

GSW & G1SP Rumble Inthejungle (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {GB}-Guana {Ire}, by Dark Angel {Ire}) has been secured by Norman Court Stud for stallion duty  and will stand the 4-year-old at its Salisbury nursery in 2021. Bred by Patrick Gleeson in Ireland and a €52,000 Goffs November Foal Sale RNA, the chestnut blossomed into a £70,000 Goffs UK Premier yearling on the bid of Bobby O'Ryan on behalf of Rebel Racing. Trained by Richard Spencer, Rumble Inthejungle got off the mark at first asking at Salisbury in May of his juvenile...

MGSW Threat (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) is the highest-rated horse at 112 in the 774-strong inaugural Tattersalls August Sale catalogue, which was released on Sunday. Consigned by Richard Hannon's East Everleigh Stables for Cheveley Park Stud as lot 469, the chestnut is one of 541 colts and geldings in and out of training set to go under the hammer from Aug. 24-26. There are also 214 fillies in and out of training, as well as 19 broodmares set to sell in Newmarket. A winner of the G2 Gimcrack S. and the...

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Today's Observations features the debut of a seven-figure Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling. 3.40 Windsor, Novice, £5,400, 3yo/up, 10fT PROPRIETY (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) debuts for the long-established and successful Cheveley Park Stud-Sir Michael Stoute axis, having been added to David and Patricia Thompson's enviable broodmare band for 1.2million gns...