A son of Mehmas and winner of the 2021 Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster, Caturra has been retired from racing and will take up stallion duties at Overbury Stud in 2023. The 3yo was bred by Tally-Ho Stud and sold to Blandford Bloodstock for £110,000 at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2020, before being sent into training with Clive Cox.
Owned by Saeed bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Caturra lost his maiden tag on his second start at Bath in May last year. He then finished a fair seventh in the Coventry Stakes before a first black type victory in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes at Newbury.
A second in the Listed Julia Graves Roses Stakes at York was followed by his signature success, a neck defeat of Armor in Doncaster's 5f Group Two for juveniles at the St Leger meeting. He was then beaten only a length and a half by Perfect Power when fifth in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes.
Although without a win at three, Caturra ran creditably several times, including when a close second on his reappearance in the Group 3 Prix Sigy at Chantilly. He was also third in Sandown's Listed Scurry Stakes and again in the Group 2 King George Stakes at Goodwood.
He will stand at Overbury for an opening fee of £6,500 and stud manager Simon Sweeting said: "He's a fast and notably precocious Flying Childers winner by a top commercial stallion. He has the most lovely head and bags of strength and quality. We’re really looking forward to showing him to breeders."
