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 as a broodmare has produced six winners to date, 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. Kabayil passed away in 2010 and we have hopes for further successes over jumps with her last two offspring, Mister Dillon and Yabadabadoo with the former already a winner on his hurdling debut in 2011.

The next broodmare to be added was KALINKA. A juvenile winner for the Club, and what a broodmare she has now turned out to be. Her first foal, BARALINKA, was a multiple winner and is now part of the breeding programme herself, having produced three winners to date, including the speedy juvenile Listed winner, MARLINKA, now also a Club broodmare. 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 Soviet Dream, by former champion sprinter Oasis Dream and now in training with James Fanshawe.

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, including SISTER ACT, a winner in Club colours whose second foal by world champion Manduro is now in training.

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 the now-retired Eisteddfod won twelve races in his long and successful career, making him the winning-most Club horse to date. He is a half-brother to the dual-Group 3 winner Boston Lodge and Border Patrol, who won two Listed races and a Group 3 race at three. With Daffyd, a stunning son of Green Desert, who has already shown promise and his younger half-sister, an attractive filly by Oasis Dream, Ffestiniog looks set to be well represented in the coming Flat seasons. She also has a superb colt by Dansili, the sire of many Group 1 winners, who is likely to enter training at the end of 2012. In 2007 OCEANS APART joined the breeding programme and is based in Kentucky, America. The first filly out of Ffestiniog, Oceans Apart was twice a winner for the Club.

These horses all give us a chance of success at the highest level. The top stallion Dansili is also responsible for one of our current star horses, Dandino, unbeaten in his first four starts at three, including on Derby day at Epsom and at Royal Ascot, where he won the King George V Stakes. Dandino then developed into a genuine Group 1 contender with fine runs in the Gordon Stakes, the St Leger and the Japan Cup. Dandino hasn't looked back since then and followed a Group 2 success at Newmarket with a fine fourth in the Group 1 Coronation Cup, with the possibility of more high-class action to look forward to in 2012.

One of the most recent additions 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. She is in foal to former multiple Group 1 winner, Duke of Marmalade.

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.