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Rathbarry Stud has been built on the principle of providing a personal service and a high level of expertise at a reasonable cost. It aims to serve breeders from all over the world. Never does owner/manager Liam Cashman shy away from this principle and it has undoubtedly helped his farm become a world leader.
Rathbarry Stud came into existence in the mid 1930s when Paul Cashman purchased the 159 acre holding at Towermore Lower on the Castlelyons - Conna boundary. The arrival of stock on the farm included a thoroughbred stallion named ROYAL POM. At that time the onus was on the stallion master to take his stallion to various centres one day a week to accommodate the mares.
Since that time obviously the onus has changed thanks to the huge progress of transportation and now any mare visiting the stallions, come to the stud farm rather than vice versa. Rathbarry hence expanded to accommodate such mares and is now firmly established as the largest family-owned stud in Europe.
In the
late 1970s, Liam Cashman decided to invest in a stallion to breed
potential champions on the flat. This horse was KAMPALA (The Leading First Season Sire in 1984) who stood
for four seasons at Rathbarry before being sold to Australia. Among
his most successful progeny was Tony Bin, winner of the Prix de
L'Arc de Triomphe and he is now a very successful stallion in Japan.
The year after KAMPALA's purchase, Colonel Dick Warden, who was
then racing manager to an unknown Arab named Sheikh Mohammed approached
Rathbarry with the offer to purchase 75% of a 4 year old horse named
TAUFAN, who had been a very good two year old but had injured himself
as a three year old and would not race again. The offer was accepted
and TAUFAN (The Leading First Season Sire in 1985) became one of Rathbarry's brightest stars all through
the 1980s and 1990s. TAUFAN's son, the Group 1 Winning TAGULA (The Leading First Season Sire in 2000), now
stands at Rathbarry. Who was to know at the time that Sheikh Mohammed
was to become the most powerful man in the bloodstock world and
he stood his first ever stallion at Rathbarry.
It is fitting that BARATHEA (The Leading First Season Sire of Stakes Winners in 1998),
the most successful sire to stand at Rathbarry and SADLER'S WELLS most
successful son at stud, carried Sheikh Mohammed's world famous colours with
such distinction when winning the Gr.1 Breeders Cup Mile and the Gr.1 Irish
2000 Guineas.
Liam Cashman is one of the most brilliant stallion masters in
the world today. Investing in three and four year old racehorses
and hoping that they will be successful stallions is a high risk
business but Liam has an uncanny eye and feel for a horse and
has made some very shrewd judgements in purchasing young stallions.
His reputation of standing leading sires can be seen in his record to date with
KAMPALA (1984),
TAUFAN (1985),
ALZAO (1988),
BARATHEA (1998),
and TAGULA (2000)
all being crowned Champion First Season Sires in their respective years.
The Flat Stallions, ALZAO (The Leading First Season Sire in 1988),
KAMPALA (The Leading First Season Sire in 1984)
, TAUFAN (The Leading First Season Sire in 1985),
MUKADDAMAH, CHARNWOOD FOREST, ACCLAMATION (The leading Sprinter by Royal Applause who retires to stud in 2004), REVOQUE (Who has gone from strength to strength since Liam acquired him in Autumn of 2003 to stand at Rathbarry from 2004 onwards),
DUSHYANTOR, INDIAN LODGE, NAMID,
SHINKO FOREST, TAGULA (The Leading First Season Sire in 2000),
and BARATHEA (The Leading First Season Sire of Stakes Winners in 1998)
- whom Liam historically
purchased before he was crowned World Champion Miler by winning
the Gr.1 Breeders Cup Mile in 1994 - are a few of his successes to date.
Some of the successful NH Stallions that Liam has been responsible for include
STRONG GALE, PHARDANTE, HUSYAN, KING'S RIDE and GOOD THYNE.
Liam's
reputation obviously carries a lot of weight and hence breeders
treat his judgement with respect and support his stallions with
a great deal of hope that their progeny will firstly be popular
in the sale ring and secondly be successful on the racetrack.
More often than not the stallions do come up with the goods in
both divisions and so another Rathbarry star is born.
Everyone at Rathbarry are very proud of the performance and success
of our stallions to date, however this success would not have been
possible without the support of our loyal patrons, and we would like
to thank all our loyal clients for that support. We look forward
to welcoming clients old and new, to Rathbarry and Glenview for the
years ahead to try and continue that success.
In 1991, due to the success of our National Hunt stallions STRONG
GALE, PHARDANTE, KING'S RIDE and GOOD THYNE, and the popularity
of the other National Hunt horses, it was necessary for Liam to
open a separate stud which he called Glenview Stud to cope with
the further influx of mares. Today, we have a number of National Hunt stallions
are resident there and they carry on a deep National Hunt
tradition following the death of STRONG GALE in 1994.
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Rathbarry
Stud, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Tel 353
25 36362 Fax 353
25 36602 Email |
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