clearwater stud
Flying start Public Sector was the first yearling consigned at Tattersalls by Farran Anstock at the renamed Clearwater Stud. The son of Kingman is now a Grade 2 and Grade 3 winner, and has given his half-brother a very tasty pedigree update ahead of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale
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BIG FAT STAKES RACE pedigree update around six weeks ahead of selling is what every yearling consignor yearns for… the pedigree will show its improvement and there is still enough time for that success to seep into buyers’ minds. When that is a winning Grade 2 performance, followed up two weeks later by Grade 3 success and a decent Grade 1 (albeit after the yearling sales conclude) is being talked about as the legitimate target; when those wins were produced by the first horse you sold under a new banner at Tattersalls, the horse whom you always thought was one of the nicest that had been bred on the farm, and when you have that colt’s yearling halfbrother catalogued in Newmarket as Lot 190, and he is just as nice, then the autumn looks quite promising. Farran Anstock of Clearwater Stud (previously Kathyrn Stud) is in that very happy position with his yearling colt by Golden Horn, a half-brother to Public Sector, winner of the mile Grade 2 National Museum Hall Of Fame Stakes at Saratoga on August 6 and the Grade 3 Saranac Stakes on September 4. The three-year-old colt by Kingman is
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trained by Chad Brown and was bought by Mike Ryan for Klaravich Stables in Book 1 2019 for 170,000gns. “He was our first horse through the ring at Tattersalls as Clearwater Stud. He was ‘the horse’ for that year and we were we were a little bit disappointed with the money he made, but he is a Grade 2 winner now so, fingers crossed, he keeps progressing now,” recalls Anstock, who laughs: “We’ve were watching the odds for the 20 minutes leading up to the Grade 2 thinking, ‘Oh god, why is he going off favourite?’ A lot of ours seem to go off favourite, and so we never get our real good bet, but winning with them is a win itself. Breeding them is a big enough gamble anyway!” Anstock’s father Fergus started breeding horses in 2006 under the banner of Kathryn Stud, the mares based at the 80-acre farm in Buckinghamshire the yearlings then sent on to Bumble Mitchell to prep and consign. When Anstock jnr decided that he might like to become fully involved in the business, before taking on mission control, he was despatched on a working and learning tour that encompassed Lynn Lodge Stud, Coolmore (Australia and Ireland), the National Stud and its courses. He came home in 2018, the stud was
