ringfort stud
What a year!
Ringfort Stud’s graduates have enjoyed another brilliant year on the track this summer. With Aisling Crowe, Derek Veitch reviews this autumn’s yearling sales and looks ahead to selling foals
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S THE WINTER DRAWS IN, and the world shrinks around us, it’s hard not to think back to those summer days that take on a warmer, honeyed hue as we are enveloped in the cold bleakness of a locked-down November. For Derek Veitch (opposite) the memories of those golden days of summer are not exaggerated by the mind, they really were glorious as his and wife Gay’s Ringfort Farm earned plaudits and prominence as the breeding ground and nursery for three juveniles with the world at their hooves. The couple’s early autumn success was the victory of Ubettabelieveit for Nigel Tinkler and Martin Webb in the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster, the second year in a row that a Ringfort-bred colt has won a flagship juvenile race at Doncaster’s St Leger Festival. The son of Kodiac is one of four stakes winners out of winning Mujadil mare Ladylishandra, the others being the Group 3 winners Tropical Paradise and Harlem Shake and the Listed winner Shenanigans. “We are all elated here, the success of these horses justifies all the mating
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