Breakthrough sire Cityscape earns small fee increase for 2019

Cityscape has received a modest fee increase at Overbury Stud in Gloucestershire for 2019 in light of a good showing from his first two inexpensively bred crops.

The son of Selkirk, who goes to £5,000 from £4,500, has been represented by three stakes winners – Dan's Dream, Give And Take and The Broghie Man – from just 47 runners this year.

His stud record also boasts Urban Aspect, who won three of his four starts for Andrew Balding and was favourite for the Cambridgeshire before being sold to race in Hong Kong in a big-money deal, and Urban Icon, who scored by three and a half lengths in both his starts at two for Richard Hannon this term.

“We've had lots of positive feedback about Cityscape and have some very successful breeders sending him mares next year,” said Overbury Stud manager Simon Sweeting.

“We've deliberately left the fee where he started out at, as we want to make sure he gets a decent book of mares – the hope is for around 120 – and to do the best by the stallion and breeders.

“I know that Urban Icon is rated very highly at home, he just had a little setback, and Dan's Dream stays in training.”

It's generally a case of as you were for the rest of the Overbury Stud roster in 2019, with Kayf Tara offered at £10,000; Ardad £6,500; Jack Hobbs £4,000; Dunaden £3,000 and Schiaparelli £1,500.

Delivering an update on the outstanding jumps sire Kayf Tara, who will turn 25 on January 1, Sweeting said: “We'll wait and see how he is next year before pressing ahead, but his fertility was the same as ever this breeding season so we're hopeful it'll be business as usual.”

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