Springfield House Stud
Go Bears Go
New to Ireland for 2025 breeding Season
B 2019 16.00hh (1.63m)
By KODI BEAR - IN DUBAI (GIANT'S CAUSEWAY)
Go Bears Go
GR winner by Kodi Bear
Race Record:
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Won Gr.2 Railway S 6f, The Curragh, beating three Group Winners, at 2 in 72.8 Second.
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Won Gr.3 Pavilion S, 6f, Ascot, beating Gr.2 winner, WINGS OF WAR
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Won Gr.3 Phoenix Sprint, 6f, The Curragh, beating four Group Winners.​
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.
Springfield House Stud
Mayson
New to Ireland for 2024 breeding Season
B 2008 16.1hh (1.65m)
By Invincible Spirit
Mayson
Sire of Group 1 Sprinters OXTED and ROHAAN
Race Record:
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Won Gr 1 July Cup, Newmarket, 6f by 5 lengths.
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WON Gr3 Palace House Stakes, Newmarket, 5f
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Won LR Abernant Stakes, Newmarket, 6f
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2nd Gr 1 Prix de L’Abbaye de Langchamp, 5f(beaten nk)
PRESS RELEASE:
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Group 1 sprinter and stallion Mayson will be moving to Springfield House Stud in Ireland for the 2024 covering season.
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It was announced at the beginning of the month that the 2012 July Cup winner would be leaving Cheveley Park Stud after a deal was completed with his owner-breeders David and Emma Armstrong of Highfield Farm, who had been standing him in partnership with the Newmarket operation.
Linda and Reddy Coffey’s Springfield House in County Tipperary has had a link with Cheveley Park through the Prix Morny and Robert Papin winner Unfortunately, who moved across from Newmarket for the 2020 covering season and has made a promising start from his early crops.
Mayson had a timely result at the Goffs Premier Yearling Sale on Wednesday when a sister to Dance Diva from Manister House Stud was knocked down to a partnership between agents Alex Elliott and Billy Jackson-Stops for £120,000, his highest sum achieved in the sector for a few seasons.
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Mayson, the 15-year-old son of Invincible Spirit, completed 11 breeding seasons with Cheveley Park. He is considered a reliable and value option among sprint sires and is approaching 250 individual worldwide winners.
They include ten at stakes level and 3 in Group company, headed by Group 1 July Cup and King’s Stand Stakes winner Oxted as well as dual Royal Ascot winner Rohaan and this season’s Group 3 Athasi Stakes winner Honey Girl.
"Linda and I are extremely excited about Mayson's arrival," said Reddy Coffey. "Mayson is a stallion that year on year punches above his weight, indeed last year he ended up the top sire of sprinters in terms of numbers of winners and percentage of winners to runners in the UK. A fee will be announced in the very near future."
Trained in his racing career by Richard Fahey, Mayson also won the Listed Abernant Stakes and the
Group 3 Palace House as well as finishing a narrow second in the Prix de l’Abbaye.
The Coffeys’ have divisions in both Ireland and Kentucky under their Oak Lodge umbrella and bred and raised the champion sprinter and highly promising sire Blue Point, among other success stories.
Contact:
Reddy Coffey (00353) 87 9666301 or Linda Coffey (00353) 86 3310968
Springfield House Stud, Knock, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary