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00:00Flying Childers is fast becoming a significant sire-making race, with past year's renewals
00:08including the likes of Havana Grey, Kottai Glory, Dark Angel and Ardad, and we all know
00:13how they are doing at stud.
00:15Keturah, who won the race, has joined Ardad at Overbury stud, and he sure has many similarities
00:20with the horse.
00:22Simon's tweeting tells us why Keturah is a young stallion worth taking note of.
00:27He's called Keturah, he's a Mimas horse out of a sleeping Indian mare, and he's a Flying
00:32Childers winner.
00:33He's a super looking horse, he's got the physical attributes that you want for a smart two-year-old.
00:40He was a very fast two-year-old, and indeed he raced on and raced well as a three-year-old
00:46too, but I think he's going to be just spot on for the commercial market.
00:51He's got a great temperament, and yes, he's been practising at home, he's done a lot of
00:58teasing, he has covered some test mares, he's taken to that very, very well, and we're looking
01:03good.
01:04Yes, he's been very popular with breeders so far, there's been a lot of interest in
01:08him and good take-up of nominations, so we're really excited, we're in a good place with
01:13him at the moment.
01:15Richard Brown bought him, he likes a very, very good looking horse, a correct animal
01:22who moves well, and this horse fits that bill absolutely.
01:27He came to us as very much a horse in training, but he's let down considerably in the last
01:34six weeks or so since we've had him.
01:36Got a fabulous temperament, he's very, very easy to deal with.
01:39As I said, he's got a great libido, but as soon as he's covered the mare, he switches
01:45off again, happy to go and, you know, eat his grub and have a sleep at the back of
01:49his stable.
01:51And he just is very, very easy to handle, but in terms of looks again, he's starting
01:57to put on a lot of muscle now, got a tremendous back end, walks beautifully, and yes, really,
02:03really couldn't be happier with what we've got.
02:06It's a horse, a race for fast horses, our dad is a previous winner, which is something
02:12that drew us to the race and to Couture himself, and this horse is a very similar type of profile
02:22to our dad as well, an expensive yearling, fast two-year-old, very, very good looking
02:29physical horse by a tremendous stallion in Mimas himself, and he's, you know, it'll be
02:35very interesting to see how the Mimas do, but we were keen to get into that sire line
02:40and see what we could do with it ourselves.
02:44I think he's going to have strong support, we've got similar type of breeders who were
02:50using our dad, and again, obviously, we are playing on the fact that he is a similar type
02:56to our dad, and we're hoping the same sort of thing's going to happen.
02:59A lot of people have made some, you know, very good money out of that, and they've managed
03:04to breed some good race horses, that's what we want to do for people again.