Cable Bay Shuttling To Woodside

MGSW Cable Bay (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}–Rose De France {Ire}, by Diktat {GB}) will shuttle from Highclere Stud to Woodside Park Stud in Australia for the 2017 Southern Hemisphere season where he will stand for a fee of A$18,500. The stallion's first crop of foals have been well received in Europe this year and Rick Jamieson of Gilgai Farm, who was involved in the sourcing and brokering process along with Grand Lodge and B2B Bloodstock commented, “We were set the task to find the right stallion with a pedigree make-up and potential for greatness including, 10% or better stakes winners to runners average. After months and months of assessing pedigrees from Australia and abroad, we found Cable Bay to be exactly what we were after. We were excited to approach John and Jake Warren, the owners of Highclere Stud and there-in completed our partnership.”

With Invincible Spirit (Ire) (Green Desert) already proven as a sire of sires in Australia thanks to the exploits of I Am Invincible (Aus), Cable Bay, as a Group 2 winner over seven furlongs when successful in the Challenge S. at Newmarket in 2015, held plenty of appeal for Jamieson and a visual inspection of the horse didn't alter that appeal. “On inspection of Cable Bay in England, I was even more confident we have found the ideal horse and I was incredibly impressed with the whole group of his first foals I saw at Highclere Stud. Cable Bay is very much like his sire Invincible Spirit and the foals are certainly in the same mould, which is no surprise when the study is done of his pedigree opportunities,” Jamieson added.

Highclere Stud's John Warren commented, “Highclere Stud have heavily supported Cable Bay in the Northern Hemisphere with plenty of lovely mares and are receiving tremendous feedback on the foals from UK breeders. This was a very interesting and exciting proposition and we have been extremely impressed with the team's commitment to making the stallion in the southern hemisphere. With their quality of mares and intended level of support, Cable Bay has every chance of becoming a great success”.