Great weekend for Laundry Cottage Stud as Via Sistina wins Group 1 Cox Plate in Australia, top sire Wootton Bassett also bred here has two Group 1 winners in France and That’s Amore ex Rubira wins impressively first time out at Newbury.

Laundry Cottage Stud Farm - breeders of the sire of the winner of the Qipco Champion Stakes ( King of Steel by Wootton Bassett), and breeders of the second horse, Via Sistina. To keep it in the family, the winner was bought for owner Kia Joorbachian by son in law Alex Elliott.

Congratulations to Stephen and Rebecca Hillen for their Group 1 success with Via Sistina, bred at Laundry Cottage Stud Farm.

We are looking to appoint a Stud Manager at LCSF. Owners have too many grandchildren and not enough holidays ,so need help! Small, friendly, 99 acre, 10 mare stud in N Herts. Excellent remuneration, generous holidays . Contact us at [email protected]

Our interestingly coloured Wootton Bassett filly born a couple of days ago!!!

Last night I watched ,on GSOperaTV ,the D’Oyly Carte 1966 film of The Mikado with the incomparable Valerie Masterson,John Reed, Kenneth Sandford etc. Great escapism back to better days!

Every time I hear the hated word”quarantine” I am struck how phonetically close it is to - the much preferable- “ Carntyne”. Of course , it was from there that Billy Connolly’s “3 men” set out to join the parish. Well worth a google!!!

The wimpy bloodstock agent and the vicious cockerel!!