Sentence examples for stud from inspiring English sources

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh moved away from the symbolism of the first half of their visit, to what was undoubtedly more congenial and relaxed ground for her, visiting several stud farms on the Curragh near Dublin.

SH I met Dan at the producer's house and he showed me a picture on his mobile of his border terriers – we even discovered our dogs came from the same stud.

And with a fellow-Irishman, J.P. McManus, Mr Magnier also owns 25.5% of Manchester United.The trouble sprang from an act of generosity: Mr Magnier registered the horse as jointly owned by his own wife and his good friend, racing enthusiast Sir Alex. That, thought Sir Alex, entitled him to half its future stud fees a right, if it was one, that was soon worth millions.

Over time his family's firm became central to racing, maintaining the general stud book a registry of thoroughbred horses and acting as a central administrator and bank to the industry.

The other is that Ireland's biggest foreign high-tech investment, the Intel plant at Leixlip near Dublin, was built on the site of a bankrupt stud farm.

They stay alive for only six to ten hours after ejaculation, so a stud ram from Wales cannot easily inseminate a Scottish ewe without going to meet her.The British ministry responsible for agriculture, DEFRA, would like to change this.

If you buy a dud, though, the purchase price cannot be written off, nor can its running costs.After a stallion has finished his racing career (usually at the end of its season as a three-year-old) he is retired to stud.

He stands at Coolmore stud in County Tipperary in Ireland, and has inevitably become a large cog in the secretive world of Irish racing.In an average year Sadler's Wells earns 15m Irish guineas ($21.5m)—some years a little less, some years considerably more an income that puts the wage of a top-class footballer into perspective.