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27/12/2024

16/12/2024

Different skies, same day

30/09/2024

22 new items added to shared album

30/09/2024

After walking 23 miles for nine hours, taking 62,000-odd steps, burning 4,788 calories, and climbing seven or so hills, all particularly nasty and steep, totalling an ascent of over 1200m, yesterday a group of around 50 of us successfully completed the Jurassic Coast Challenge in aid of Racing Welfare. 😊

Luckily the rain held off until the last hour, for most of the walk we just had to battle a gusty,
cliff-face wind that did its best to throw us off track, thank god it was blowing inland and not seawards.

The walk was far tougher than I had ever envisaged ... my leg muscles and feet started to seriously complain by mid-day.

Unfortunately, the afternoon rain and lack of battery life (mine and my phone's!) meant that photo snapping opportunities came to an end three-quarters of the way around, but there are a few here... hopefully the pictures show just how steep the hills are.

For those who have sponsored, many thanks indeed... the funds you have kindly promised really did motivate me to get to the finish line at Swanage School, and I know Racing Welfare is very grateful for the donations.

And, of course, there is still time to sponsor, so here is your last call, go to: https://racingwelfare.enthuse.com/pf/sally-duckett ... every penny is vital.

With thanks and best wishes

Sally

22 new items added to shared album

09/09/2024

Dear All,

On September 29, alongside a wide group of racing and bloodstock folk, I will be attempting to walk 22 miles of the Jurassic Coast to raise funds for Racing Welfare.

As I am never going to be someone who would take on a challenge as arduous as cycling the length or breadth of the country, or have any desire to attempt a ludicrous feat such as scaling the Three Peaks in less than 24 hours, I decided this might be a "doable" fund-raising challenge for me, and one that I could reasonably take on without recourse (hopefully) to hospital treatment.

We are walking from Lulworth Cove to Swanage, starting out at 6.30am and, with luck, we will get to the finishing post by nightfall.

I am fervently hoping that our reward for completion will be a scoop or two of delicious Dorset ice cream (there is not a lot I won't do for ice cream) 🍦🍦

Of course, financial support will be a sufficient driving force to get me over the finish line, too.

I appreciate we all get lots of requests for sponsorship, but on this occasion you do not have to dig too deep into those Schoffel / Superdry / tweed / bloodstock company-branded pockets – the base level of sponsorship we need to raise individually is £300 (though obviously I would like the figure to be much higher).

And you all have an added bonus .... a week later at Tattersalls October Book 1 you can have a laugh at my expense as I will be running after evasive buyers and consignors for sales day live quotes with the likelihood that blisters and still-sore muscles will compromise my already "far-from-elegant-running-to-get-the-quote" stride action.

Please support such a worthy cause that does so much for our industry ... as well as a middle-aged woman who has not completed any of the training routes she had rather optimistically planned and scheduled.

So, before I lose your attention and you move on to read the next post on your social media feed, please take two minutes to click on this link, register your details and support Racing Welfare.

https://racingwelfare.enthuse.com/pf/sally-duckett

With many thanks

Sal x

Dear All, The Jurassic Coast Challenge is billed by Racing Welfare as

12/08/2024

First-Crop European Yearling Sires 2024: Part 2

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From Bangkok via Japan to Palace Pier and Soft Light

Bangkok Chapel Stud
Japan
Lope Y Fernandez National Stud
Lucky Vega Irish National Stud
Nando Parrado National Stud
Palace Pier
Soft Light

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12/08/2024

First-Crop European Yearling Sires 2024: Part 1

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This post features all the "A" sires

A'Ali Newsells Park Stud Limited
Alkumait
Alson
Amour Al Shaqab Racing

12/08/2024

First-Crop European Yearling Sires

Stallion Scene: Part 2

is looking forward to launching two new commercial sires onto the yearling market this autumn – Lucky Vega and Nando Parrado

finds out more, he chats to Conor Hyland at Ireland's flagship farm

Read here ⏬
www.internationalthoroughbred.co.uk
or here ⏬
https://bit.ly/wbystallionscene_first-cropyearlingsires

11/08/2024

First-Crop European Yearling Sires 2024: Part 3

From Space Blues via St Mark's Basilica to Windstoss

Space Blues Darley
St Mark's Basilica Stud
Starman -Ho Stud
Supremacy Stud
Ubettabelieveit
Victor Ludorum
Windstoss

11/08/2024

20/07/2024

17/05/2024

Bit of a long shot.... I am looking for editorial reports or photos of someone who hunted the Atherstone through the mid-1930s to 1939.

Anyone any ideas if any records have been kept by anyone?

Thanks, any help much appreciated 🙂

Warwickshire Hunt | Horse & Hound | Save Atherstone Hunt | Atherstone Hunt

29/04/2024

Have an interesting project in mind for International Thoroughbred & hunting out some real life stories 📖🔍

We are looking for:

1.⁠ ⁠People working in racing / bloodstock now with ancestor (s) who took part in the D Day landings & the subsequent action across France

2.⁠ ⁠Or do you have an ancestor who was involved & worked in racing before and / or after WWII?

Drop me a message, or email [email protected], thanks.

18/12/2023

Read our latest publication on Issuu: https://issuu.com/international_thoroughbred/docs/itb_december2023