The National Stud

As well as commercial breeding services, it undertakes education and training activities and allows the public to visit the working stud on organised tours.

Notable horses bred at Tully included Blandford, Myrobella, Royal Lancer, Big Game, Sun Chariot and Chamossaire.

[1]: 5–6  Work started on the new stud in the autumn of 1964, when the ground was ploughed and sown with grass; thousands of trees, mostly Canadian Maples, were planted the following February.

[1]: 8  The first stallions, Never Say Die and Tudor Melody, arrived at Newmarket in the autumn of 1966 and the stud was officially opened by the Queen in April 1967.

[1]: 9–10  A notable addition to the roster of stallions was Mill Reef, who arrived at the stud in 1973 after his racing career was ended by a leg injury.

[3] The National Stud is set in about 500 acres (2 km²) of paddocks on the outskirts of Newmarket off the Cambridge Road, adjacent to the July Course.