Springfield House Stud
Go Bears Go

GO BEARS GO TO STAND AT SPRINGFIELD HOUSE STUD

 

Go Bears Go, winner of a vintage Gr.2 Railway Stakes  and one of luminaries of his generation at two, has been retired by Kia Joorabchian’s AMO Racing to stand in partnership at Reddy and Linda Coffey’s Springfield House Stud in 2025.

 

The third AMO Racing-owned horse to retire to stud this autumn, Go Bears Go will embark on his new career having demonstrated precocity, speed, class and durability in abundance during his time on the track. He is also a grandson of the hugely successful Kodiac while he shares his damsire, Giant’s Causeway, with the American sire sensation Gun Runner.

 

A stylish winner on his debut at Ascot in May, the Kodi Bear horse finished a head second in the Gr.2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot the following month. Just nine days later his impressive juvenile season continued when Go Bears Go won a tremendous edition of the Gr.2 Railway Stakes at the Curragh in a faster time than the likes of George Washington, Rock Of Gibraltar and Mastercraftsman.

 

Go Bears Go would then emerge as a major force at the top level through the autumn as evidenced by a very close third in Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and when reaching the frame in the Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes. Even better was to come later in year when Go Bears Go came from a nigh on impossible position to take second in the Gr.2 Breeders Cup Juvenile Sprint

 

The following season Go Bears Go began his campaign with a decisive success in the  Group 3 Pavilion Stakes at Ascot and further pattern race heroics followed when he dominated six previous Group/Listed winners in the Gr.3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes at the Curragh.

 

He retires to stud as a multiple pattern race winner with a career high rating of 113 while also notching up a series of distinguished efforts in top company on both sides of the Atlantic.

 

“Go Bears Go was one of our early flagbearers and has long been held in high regard by AMO Racing. He has given us a number of memorable days, especially in the Railway Stakes and when narrowly touched off at the Breeders Cup,” commented Kia Joorabchian.

 

“We are delighted to have entered into partnership with Reddy and Linda Coffey and we look forward to supporting Go Bears Go over the coming years. We have every confidence in his ability to make a notable impact at stud,” he added.

 

Springfield House Stud’s Reddy Coffey stated: “We are thrilled to be standing Go Bears Go in partnership with AMO. He’s a quality, good looking horse with the form to match and we believe that he will make notable appeal to the commercial Irish breeder”.

 

Go Bears Go is the highest rated runner produced by his sire, Kodi Bear, whose representatives this season include the leading juveniles Leovanni and Cowardofthecounty.

 

In addition he is a son of the winning Giant’s Causeway mare In Dubai who is a half-sister to the multiple top level winner Nahrain, dam of this season’s English 1000 Guineas heroine Elmalka and the top miler Benbatl.  The second dam is the dual Classic-placed Royal Ascot heroine Bahr.

 

Go Bears Go will stand for a fee of €8,000 in 2025.