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.

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 joined the breeding programme and foaled a smart first foal by former champion sprinter Oasis Dream last year.

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, now broodmares themselves, plus this year's two-year-old, Affinity, who is by the great Sadler's Wells and in training with Henry Cecil.

These horses all give us a chance of success at the highest level and Kalinka has an attractive two-year-old filly this year by the top stallion Dansili. Dansili is also responsible for one of our star horses of 2010, Dandino, unbeaten in his first four starts at three, including on Derby at Epsom and at Royal Ascot, where he won the King George V Stakes and is now set to run in Group company.

FFESTINIOG has proved to be a superb broodmare and her first seven 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 twelve races, making him the winning-most Club horse to date. He is a half-brother to Boston Lodge also a Group 3 winner and Border Patrol a rising star who won two Listed races and a Group 3 race in 2009. With a stunning Green Desert yearling colt to look forward to in 2011, and an attractive filly foal by Oasis Dream, Ffestiniog looks set to be well represented in the coming Flat seasons. In 2007 OCEANS APART joined the breeding programme. The first filly out of Ffestiniog, Oceans Apart was twice a winner for the Club and her first foal is a nice filly by the legendary Giant's Causeway.

In the hope of getting some useful dual-purpose progeny, TROMPETTE was added to the breeding programme in 2008. 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.

Our latest addition to the breeding programme is CHINA TEA, by the Derby winner High Chaparral and a full-sister to the classy French middle-distance horse, Magadan.

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.