OVERBURY Stud’s Group 1 star and veteran sire Kayf Tara (by Sadler’s Wells) is the top British-based National Hunt stallion, one of only five horses to have passed the £1 million mark so far this season, and the only non Irish-based one in the top 10, up to Monday night.

His recent winners include Aunt Nora who sprang a 33/1 surprise in the Grade 2 Ocavango Coolmore National Hunt Sires European Breeders Fund Mares Novice Chase over two and a half miles at Thurles.