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Cable Bay; Odyssey Moon; Furnaces
• CABLE BAY, a G2-winning son of Invincible Spirit, will shuttle from Highclere Stud in the UK to Woodside Park Stud in Victoria in 2017.
Gilgai Farm, Woodside Park, Grand Lodge and B2B Bloodstock have joined forces to import the young sire.Cable Bay is the highest-rated 2YO at stud in the UK and Ireland by Invincible Spirit and was the most popular first season sire, with only Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) covering more mares in the UK in 2016.
A winner of the G2 Challenge Stakes (1400m) and G3 John of Gaunt Stakes (1400m), he was also placed in the G1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket.Cable Bay, whose grand dam is the dual G1 winner Cherokee Rose (Dancing Brave), will stand at Woodside at the introductory fee of $19,800 (inc. GST).
His immediate family also features G3 winner Bowman (Irish River) and the dam of the G1 winners Kirkless (Jade Robbery) and Mastery (Sulamani). This is also the family of the G1 Eclipse Stakes winner and young stallion Mukhadram (Sharmardal).
He will commence stallion duties tt a fee of $8800 including GST.
Odyssey Moon is one of the best performed two-year-olds by Snitzel and achieved higher rating as a juvenile on the Australian and New Zealand Classifications than Wandjina, Shamus Award, Spill The Beans and Sooboog.Odyssey Moon won his debut race at Randwick as a two-year-old and was placed at his next starts in the G3 Skyline Stakes and the G3 Pago Pago Stakes before finishing second in the G1 ATC Sires Produce Stakes.
Earlier this year Odyssey Moon won the G3 Standish Handicap over 1200m at Flemington and retires having won four races and earnings of $703,275.Odyssey Moon’s dam Run To The Moon is by Arch, also the broodmare sire of the outstanding young sire Uncle Mo.
She is from a strong American family and is a three quarter sister to the dual G1 winner Jostle who won the Alabama Stakes and the Coaching Club American Oaks, two of America’s most important races for three-year-old fillies,.Olly Tait, the owner of Twin Hills Stud, said: “We are delighted to have purchased a majority interest in Odyssey Moon who, as one of Snitzel’s best ever two-year-olds, is a very exciting stallion prospect.
“He is a great looking horse that is athletic and strong. We are going to syndicate him and I know breeders will love him when they see him”.• GODOLPHIN homebred Furnaces is the latest addition to the 2017 stallion roster at Aquis Farm in Queensland.
Furnaces is one of 129 stakes-winners sired by champion sire Exceed and Excel and his stakes-placed dam Heat of the Fire (Strategic) traces back to influential matriarch Summoned.Prepared by John O’Shea, Furnaces was a six lengths juvenile winner on debut at Rosehill before placings in the Listed Lonhro Plate (1100m) and G2 Todman Stakes (1200m).
Furnaces finished sixth in the G1 Golden Slipper behind Vancouver and then backed up to win the G3 Kindergarten Stakes (1100m) at Randwick.Furnaces returned to break the 1100m track record at Hawkesbury clocking 61.35s in the Gold Rush Sprint and as a 4yo was second in the G2 McEwen Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley.
Godolphin has retained breeding rights to Furnaces. He will stand for a $9900 (inc gst) alongside Holy Roman Emperor, Domesday, Benfica, Kiss And Make Up, Spill The Beans, Husson and another recent arrival Sweet Orange.Sweet Orange will be the first son of War Front to stand in Queensland after three seasons at Highview Stud in New Zealand.
