Welcome to Fittocks Stud

For more than forty years, Luca and Sara Cumani have bred horses at Fittocks Stud just outside Newmarket. What started as a family venture to augment a successful training business at Bedford House Stables has become a globally recognised operation run on a commercial basis with owner-breeder principles at heart. The stud is now home to an elite band of mares for the Cumani family and clients from across Europe.

From the purchase of 50 acres in 1979, Fittocks Stud moved five years later from its initial home in Cheveley to its current base in the village of Upend, with Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud, Darley and Hascombe & Valiant Studs as its neighbours.

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The stud now comprises 360 acres which is well divided between large, undulating summer paddocks of varying sizes from 12 to 20 acres and smaller, sheltered winter paddocks. The majority of the present acreage was originally arable land which has been drained, seeded and fenced with plenty of trees and hedges planted over the years.

Further extensive work has been undertaken on the infrastructure, with new boxes being built to offer plenty of light and ventilation. The dedicated foaling unit has CCTV, rubber walls and floors, while our yearling yard has two horse walkers, a lunge ring and small paddocks for turn out, which we believe is vitally important for sales prep as it allows the colts to have individual turnout during the day. The renowned Rossdales veterinary practice is on hand and on call around the clock.

From St Leger hero and top National Hunt sire MILAN to the Group 1 winning colts CHARMING THOUGHT and FORTE DEI MARMI and to Group 1 winning fillies SHAMSHIR and LADY BOWTHORPE, plenty of top class horses have spent their formative years in the paddocks of Fittocks Stud.

Fittocks has also been delighted to welcome the multiple Group 1 winner Attraction during many foaling seasons for her late owner the Duke of Roxburghe, as well as having a number of the Meon Valley Stud mares as seasonal boarders. Our proximity to some of the finest sires in Europe at the leading stallion studs of Newmarket makes Fittocks Stud ideally placed to offer this service to our fellow breeders. In recent years, our sales consignments have expanded to include yearling drafts, as well as foals and mares, to accommodate both homebred and our client’s horses.

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