Cable Bay (Ire)

The Feb. 8 Highclere Stud Stallion Parade will now also support Racing Welfare. A donation equivalent to 5% of the nomination sales generated on the day of the parade will be donated to Racing Welfare, Highclere's Jake Warren announced. "Racing Welfare provides crucial care for the wellbeing of people in the horseracing and thoroughbred breeding community, and we are privileged to support their efforts," said Warren. "We are hugely looking forward to seeing breeders next week for what should be a very entertaining day." The stallion parade is now fully...

With the 2022 breeding season right around the corner, we will feature a series of breeders' mating plans over the coming weeks. Breeder Leah Perry shares with us the mating plans for her broodmare band. ACAPELLA STAR (IRE) (m, 15, Oratorio {Ire}--Opera Star {Ire}, by Sadler's Wells) A 400 gns private purchase and unraced mare, the George Baker trainee's first foal and only runner Fame n Fortune (GB) (Thewayouare) gained TFR 93 while winning five times. She is also responsible for a filly by Shade Oak stud's Telescope (Ire) who...

The 2022 roster and fees for Highclere Stud have been released. Both Cable Bay (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) at £8,000 and Land Force (Ire) (No Nay Never) at £5,000, will stand for Oct. 1st SLF, with both fees unchanged from 2021. Cable Bay's eldest foals are just 4-year-olds, and he is already the sire of six black-type winners including Liberty Beach (GB), who also ran third in the G1 King's Stand S., fellow group winner Collinsbay (GB), and three-time Group 1 placed Dragon Symbol (GB). G2 Richmond S. hero Land...

Making all on her return in Saturday's G2 Temple S. at Haydock, Liberty Beach (GB) (Cable Bay {Ire}) enjoyed the perfect warm-up for a second tilt at the G1 King's Stand S. in which she was third in 2020. Also third in ParisLongchamp's G1 Prix de l'Abbaye when last seen in October, the 13-8 favourite was made to pull out the stops late on by Ainsdale (GB) (Mayson {GB}) but kept finding to score by a neck as Lady In France (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) was half a length away in...

Unbeaten on the all-weather with three wins at Wolverhampton, Newcastle and Kempton coming by a combined margin of 12 1/2 lengths since the start of March, Yoshiro Kubota's Dragon Symbol (GB) (Cable Bay {GB}) made his first turf start an impressive one to earn TDN Rising Star status at Hamilton on Sunday. Sent off the 11-8 favourite to transform that prowess to the grass in the valuable MansionBet Best Odds Guaranteed EBF Tangerine Trees Conditions S., the Archie Watson-trained grey raced keenly tracking the early pace dropping back to five furlongs for the first...