Second First Crop Australian Winner for Cable Bay

While it may have taken the Woodside Park Stud shuttler Cable Bay (Invincible Spirit) a while to kick off with his first Australian crop runners, it is worth noting the competition has been fierce. As one of 26 individual sires to record a first crop winner so far this season in Australia, Cable Bay's second winner, the Neville Parham-trained Flying Missile (Cable Bay-Magnus Missile, by Magnus) highlighted the class her sire can produce, scoring over 1100m at Ascot on Wednesday by almost 3-lengths. Set to head to the Gr2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m), the lightly raced filly has now had four starts for her connections and has yet to finish out of a place. With a higher winners-to-runners ratio so far this season than many other high profile freshman sires, Cable Bay's progeny have shown ability in both the southern and northern hemisphere, and with some high-quality mares covered in his four seasons in Australia, where he has averaged roughly 100 mares each season, it will be interesting to see if they step up to another level as 3YOs next season.

Cable Bay had his second winner on Thursday (pic: woodsideparkstud.com.au)