We have been pleasantly surprised and honoured to have received the Andrew Devonshire Award 2026 from the Thoroughbred Breeders Association for ‘exceptional acievement and contribution to the British Thoroughbred Breeding Industry’. For sure , there are lots of other studs...
A long, cold, grey easterly season has ended to be replaced by extreme heat and rock solid ground. We have twelve in foal including boarders to a variety of stallions from Kingman at the expensive end to Isaac Shelby at...
We are pleased to announce that Charlotte Brandon has taken the role of Stud Groom and Farm manager. Charlotte worked here a number of years ago, had a short spell thereafter at Childwickbury Stud before rejoining LCS in 2021. We...
Via Sistina winning the Champion Stakes for the second time in Australia this weekend took her Group 1 tally to a remarkable 12 wins. Her success brightened the mood after the untimely death of the other star bred here, Wootton...
Happy New Year from LCS. We are limbering up for the breeding season while , as usual, trying to prevent the yearlings from doing themselves a mischieve while behaving like rowdy adolescents! We will cover 16 mares in 2024 including...
The yearling sales proved to be trickier than anticipated by most and, by the end , it was clear that a reasonable major downward revaluation had taken place, especially in Tattersalls Books 1 and 3 (perhaps by as much as...
It is great to be able to announce that another Laundry Cottage Stud bred horse has won a Group 1 race, the highest category in the sport. Via Sistina won the Irisk Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh at the...
We were delighted when Rebecca Hillen’s mare Via Sistina, bred here at Laundry Cottage Stud Farm, ran out an impressive winner of the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket . Hopefully she is a second Group 1 winner in the...
Although it is still early days in the breeding season, we have been busy at Laundry Cottage and have foaled 8 of the 11 expectant mares over the last few weeks. Boarding mares Velvet Vision (owned by Sarabex) has delivered...
With all the foals safely on the ground, we are busy with recovering the mares-a race against time for some as the breeding season end point gets closer. Eight mares are now in foal (Winter Light/Iffraaj, Tianadargent/Time Test, Carina/ Masar,...
Another sales season is over with 6 yearlings, 3 foals and one mare successfully sold. While there will be no champagne breakfasts on the proceeds, it has been an ok year (maybe a Bacon Butty will be possible)! We now...
The season has started well for graduates of LCSF. There were 5 runners bred here last week and 3 of them were winners, one was placed and one brought up the rear of a NH field at Musselburgh ! Of...
Taking stock at the end of a challenging sales season the numbers on the bottom line would have been difficult had it not been for the return to the Stud on the Wootton Bassett share we owned. Having bred WB,...
With Donny, BBAG, Arqana 1 all been and gone, the story seems to be one of 25% is reductions in price but a reasonable maintenance of the clearing rate. Still lots to go with Tatts Ireland,Goffs and the Tatts Newmarket...
Laundry Cottage Stud farm was a feature in the June edition of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders magazine. Discussing the studs latest successes at the Tattersalls December Foal sales, life around the stud, and how the global pandemic has affected...
All the foals are here-7 for LCS- and all the mares-8- are in foal. We used Gleneagles, Wootton Bassett, Bated Breath (twice), Profitable, Havana Gold, Due Diligence and Showcasing. Hopefully a decent mix and the first three sexed are carrying...
There has been quite an interregnum since we last posted -in 2018! Plenty time now though under lockdown. For a change(a pleasant one), we ended up having some success at the December 2019 sales,topping the day on both the Thursday...
Six foals on the ground- six fillies. Eight more to come and according to sexing (which to date has only been 66% correct!),we can expect two more fillies and six colts. The saving grace is that the fillies on the...
It has been a long few months but we have successfully finished foaling all the mares at the stud for this year, and what a lovely crop of foals we have had. It all kicked off with a big bay...
We hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year! Our first four foaling mares are in and ready for foaling to commence, with the first mare due at the end of January then followed...
As 2016 comes to a close,we can reflect on a decent year for the Stud at the Yearling and Foal sales,a good year racing stock in France but an indifferent year racing in the UK. We prepared 4 yearlings (Oasis...
The racing season is coming towards its end and it has been a quiet one for the stud. Last Saturday Rivellino could do no better than come in 5th in a Listed race at Lingfield while Southern Gailes managed a...
Half the year gone and time for the sales again. We go to the Tattersalls July sale next week with 2 nice mares-Valen ,in foal to Garswood and Tohaveandtohold in foal to War Command. While Valen was a two year...
2015 has begun in a rush of colts with 9 out of 9 foaled being colts until an Oasis Dream filly broke the run this afternoon. Three of the colts foaled are boarders over from France and these mares have...
