The first serious broodmare to be added to our breeding programme was KABAYIL. She had already proved herself on the racecourse with seven wins in the Club’s colours and she has already produced four winners including the classy dual-purpose Dancing Bay, who added black type to the family with a Group 2 second and third place. A versatile individual, Dancing Bay won eleven races for the Club, on the Flat, over hurdles and over fences before his retirement in 2007.

The next broodmare to be added was KALINKA. She won two races and what a broodmare she has now turned out to be. Her first foal, BARALINKA, was a winner and is now part of the breeding programme herself. Kalinka’s second foal was none other than SOVIET SONG, by the sire Marju. This remarkable multiple Group 1 winning mare has now joined the breeding programme.

Penzance was Kalinka's third foal and turned out to be a real star, this time over hurdles. He was unbeaten in four runs as a juvenile, including the Grade 2 Adonis Hurdle and prestigious Grade 1 Triumph Hurdle on the hallowed turf at the 2005 Cheltenham Festival, which also marked the Club's fiftieth home-bred success. Kalinka produced two quality full-sisters to Soviet Song, including this year's two-year-old, and her yearling is by the great Sadler's Wells. Baralinka's second foal is a colt by Marju, giving us a second chance of more big time action.

These horses all give us a chance of success at the highest level and Kalinka is due to foal this year to the top stallion Dansili.

FFESTINIOG has proved to be a superb broodmare and her first six offspring are all useful winners, including Eisteddfod, who gained black type for the family when winning the Group 3 Prix de Meautry at Deauville. In fact Eisteddfod has to date won eleven races, making him the joint winning most horse in Club history, along with his fellow homebred, the retired Dancing Bay. His half-brother, Boston Lodge, is also a Group 3 winner. Last year OCEANS APART joined the breeding programme. The first filly out of Ffestiniog, Oceans Apart was twice a winner for the Club.

Our newsest addition to the breeding programme is the well-bred Trompette. Three times a winner for the Club over hurdles, Trompette is out of a Sadler's Wells mare and is a half-sister to the former high-class novice hurdler; Ambobo.

Members' involvement in the breeding programme isn't restricted to the reports in the newsletters or the excellent viewing material on the videos - every Member has the opportunity to visit the mares and foals and these visits are extremely popular. There is no admission charge for Members.