Watership Down Stud to sponsor TBA Flat Breeders' Awards

This year's Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Flat Breeders' Awards Evening will be sponsored for the first time by Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber’s Watership Down Stud.

Tickets are now on sale via the TBA website’s event page for the event, which takes place on Wednesday, July 9 at Chippenham Park on the eve of Newmarket’s July Festival and the July Sale at Tattersalls and celebrates British-bred successes from the 2024 Flat racing season.

Watership Down bred Too Darn Hot, who was the winner of last year’s Tattersalls Silver Salver awarded to Britain’s leading first-season sire in 2023 and is the sire of Group 1 winners Hotazhell, Fallen Angel and Broadsiding .

Simon Marsh, general manager of Watership Down Stud, said:  "We are delighted to be sponsoring the annual TBA Flat Breeders’ Awards this year. We could not be happier with the way Too Darn Hot has started his stallion career being champion first-season sire in both the UK and Australia.

"We would like to thank all the breeders who have supported him, including those who have sent mares to him this year and we can’t wait to see what his progeny do on the track this season."

A total of 13 awards will be presented during the course of the evening including the prestigious Andrew Devonshire and Dominion Bronze awards along with the TBA Stud Employee Award, sponsored by New England Stud with a £2,000 first prize and a perpetual Charlie Langton Bronze and the 2024 Flat Statistical Award winners announced earlier this year.

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