Yorton Stud

The Racing Together Webinar Series returns on Thursday, November 14 with a look back at National Racehorse Week and how it has become a community outreach success story. The webinar will be hosted by Sally Lyons from Great British Racing (GBR), who will be joined by guests including Richard Phillips, the originator of the idea of National Racehorse Week, and Fr33dom Zampaladus, the founder of the Urban Equestrian Academy. Representatives from New Beginnings and Yorton Stud will also take part in episode one of the series. The webinar will begin...

Multiple Group 1 winner Postponed (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) will move to Yorton Stud for the 2024 breeding season after Yorton and James & Jean Potter, Ltd. purchased the stallion from Darley. A fee will be announced later for the four-time Group 1 winner. Previously under the Darley banner at Dalham Hall Stud, the bay will stand to the Futter family's stud near Welshpool in Powys. Richard Venn brokered the deal. David Futter said of the son of Ever Rigg (GB) (Dubai Destination), "Postponed is a proper horse that any stallion...

Goffs has announced that George Stanners has re-joined the company in a client liaison and auctioning role in Ireland and the UK. Stanners spent 17 years working with Goffs UK before taking up the position as bloodstock manager at Yorton Farm last year.  He remains a consultant to the leading breeding operation but Goffs chief executive Henry Beeby has described his delight at seeing Stanners return to the company he joined straight out of school.  Beeby said, "We are delighted George is back with us as he was always a...

David Futter's Yorton Stud has announced the arrival of Ito (Ger), a Group 1-winning son of the late German champion sire Adlerflug (Ger) and full-brother to German Derby winner In Swoop (Ire). Bred by Gestut Schlenderhan, Ito was himself the champion older horse in Germany in 2015, the year in which he won the G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern. His dam is also a Classic winner, the Preis der Diana victrix Iota (Ger) (Tiger Hill {Ire}). "We are very excited to have acquired Ito, whose profile speaks for itself," said...