fittocks stud Lot 66: the Frankel colt out of Blue Waltz with Juan Suarez
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A fine draft
Luca and Sara Cumani are looking forward to offering a quality yearling draft under their Fittocks Stud banner at this year’s Tattersalls October Book 1 and Book 2 sales, writes Sally Duckett
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ACING, BREEDING AND PRODUCING racehorses is a game for the long term, but alongside that longevity it also requires some sort of strategic plan, one that will have a chance of bringing those extended plans, hopes and ambitions to a successful result. Luca and Sara Cumani achieved the highest ambitions possible in racing when Kahyasi, trained by Cumani, won the 1988 Epsom Derby, that Classic success followed up ten years later with the Epsom
victory of High Rise. All in, Cumani produced over 60 global Group 1 winners, including seven Classic winners, spanning the decades from 1976 to 2018. Now, in 2020, with the benefit of hindsight and with the perspective of time, that training career has formed the solid foundations, that strategic base, for the couple’s second career, that of running a sizeable stud farm in the breeding hinterland of Newmarket. Fittocks Stud was purchased by the
Sara Cumani, the manager of Fittocks, ensuring equine progress is recorded
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