Chapel Stud A Labour Of Love For Close

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00:00Chapel Stud is making a name for itself as a stud farm and stallion operation, with Plantor

00:07being the sire of staying star Trushan.

00:09Roisin Close, who owns and manages the stud, tells us about the farm and new horse and

00:14son of Australia, Bangkok.

00:17Chapel Stud is actually an extension or a following on from Butlin's farm, which I had

00:25for 13 years.

00:27We outgrew the farm, so we needed to find a new premises and we found a farm about half

00:34an hour north of where Butlin's was, and we just thought, new chapter, new everything.

00:40I've got Plantor, who is standing his second season this year with me.

00:45He was purchased by Simon Davis of Welsh Marches Stud, and since he bought him, almost anything

00:52that can go right for that horse has gone right.

00:55Trushan is a multiple group one winner now, a champion, he's had another group two winner

01:00this year, another listed winner.

01:03Just shy of 58% winners to runners, I mean he literally can do no wrong, coupled with

01:09the fact he's just a fantastic looking horse with a great pedigree.

01:12So adding to him this year is the Volsertact, who again was purchased by Simon to complement

01:21the national hunt arm, if you like, of the stud.

01:24And again, he's a beautiful quality horse, but a much more typical national hunt stamp

01:30of a stallion.

01:32So that also brings the third one in, Bangkok.

01:35He was purchased by Sackville-Donald for King Power Racing as a yearling for 500,000 guineas,

01:41so that tells you pedigree and looks, et cetera, are all there.

01:45He's a very attractive quality son of Australia, out of effectively a blue hen mare.

01:54He's a proper dual-purpose stallion.

01:58He's run over seven furlongs, he's run mile and a quarter.

02:02He won his group two at the York Stakes over a mile or two.

02:08He's tough and consistent, he ran on the all-weather, he won the winter derby trial.

02:15He's run in different countries, different continents, he's been everywhere.

02:18I mean, temperament to the fore, without question.

02:22And Andrew Balding, who trained him, said, tough, sound, consistent with the stallion's

02:28pedigree.

02:29And that's all you need to know, and he's absolutely the type of horse that people should

02:33be embracing to breed racehorses.

02:35We will offer a bonus to breeders, so anyone that breeds a two-year-old winner in his first

02:42crop can have a free return.

02:44The first black-type two-year-old winner get a £25,000 bonus split between owner, trainer,

02:50breeder.

02:51Because we just think this horse should have that opportunity, and he deserves it.

02:55So yeah, we're really excited.

02:57He's got some cracking mares booked in.

02:59King Power are sending mares to Balding, Simon of course, and a lot of other astute breeders

03:05have booked mares in.

03:06And then we have a couple of flat stallions in Indian Haven, who I stand on behalf of

03:13Susie Pritchard-Jones, and he is one of the few remaining sons of the Bialy Turk line,

03:20so stallion sons.

03:23And then the apple of my eye, Helvellyn, who's 18 this year, looks fantastic, he's loving

03:29life.

03:30He kind of started it all off for me at Bucklands Farm, and kind of probably got me where I

03:36am now.

03:37And he's just amazing.

03:38You know, he continues to produce winners.

03:41He looks like he's turning into a really exciting broodmare sire.

03:44He's really quite a special horse.

03:47The farm is amazing.

03:48I absolutely love what I do, and I don't think you can do this if you don't love it.

03:53It's a lifestyle, a way of life, or whatever you want to call it, a vocation.

03:58And I'm so lucky, along the way, from the Tween Hill days, or even before that, when

04:04I first started, I was in America at TaylorMade, everyone has supported me and backed me and

04:09allowed me to get where I am, and that includes people I've worked for, people I've worked

04:13alongside, my family, my friends, and have kind of allowed me to get where I am.

04:20It's an amazing business to be in, and I'm really lucky that I've got a great team that

04:25help me on and off the farm, so that makes it possible.

04:30It wouldn't be possible without it.

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