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Martin Stevens
chats to Tim Lane of The National Stud and Simon Sweeting of Overbury Stud about their exciting young stallions, Time Test and Ardad 46
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RITISH BREEDERS operating on a small to medium budget have yearned for commercially credible proven sires at affordable fees for several seasons now. It appears their prayers have been answered with the emergence of freshmen Ardad and Time Test as exciting young stallions this year. Up to early November, the Overbury Stud resident Ardad had supplied 21 winners, including the Prix Morny (G1) and Middle Park Stakes (G1) hero Perfect Power, the Sirenia Stakes (G3) scorer Eve Lodge and the
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Coventry Stakes (G2) third Vintage Clarets. The National Stud’s Time Test, meanwhile, had notched 11 winners from just 38 runners and they included Rocchigiani and Romantic Time, both winners at Group 3 level, and Tardis and The King’s Horses in Listed contests. However, his highest-rated runner is Gavin Cromwell’s likeable filly Sunset Shiraz, who finished placed in the Group 2 Debutante Stakes, the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1), the Weld Park Stakes (G3) and Staffordstown Stud Stakes (L) before winning a Gowran
