HAVING more than doubled in price when the fees for 2022 were announced, this year breeders can continue to use Kodi Bear for €15,000.

The quality of mares he has attracted recently, allied to results on the track and the fact that last year his yearlings sold for 210,000gns and €185,000, averaging almost €50,000, and foals realised up to €98,000, would indicate that he remains excellent value for money.

His father Kodiac (Danehill) is proving to be very popular as a sire of stallions, with such as Hello Youmzain, Best Solution, Nando Parrado and Ubettabelieveit among those who went to stud in more recent years. They join others who have made an impact with their first runners.

Kessaar, Adaay, Prince Of Lir and Group 1 sires Ardad and Coulsty have all made a splash, and Kodi Bear’s enhanced fee in recent years reflects his own prowess as a sire. His six stakes winners are headed by the high-class Go Bears Go, winner of the Group 2 Railway Stakes at two, a couple of Group 3 races, runner-up in both the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes and Grade 2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, and third in the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes.

If you get a runner by Kodi Bear you have a slightly better than 50% chance of a winner, and with a dozen stakes horses already to his credit, the odds when using him look good. His statistics are only likely to improve now that his books of mares have done so.

Kodi Bear opened his winning account in a seven-furlong listed race at two, the Winkfield Stakes at Ascot where he had Muhaarar back in third, and chased home champion Belardo in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes. The following season he went on to record impressive wins in both the Group 3 Sovereign Stakes over a mile, and the Group 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood, and finished fourth to Territories in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat. .

Kodi Bear is a half-sister to the dam of a pair of Italian stakes winners, and this is the immediate family of a number of notable performers, the likes of Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes victor Cool Creek (Desert Style). A star producer on the pedigree page is the unraced Dievotchka (Dancing Brave). She had six stakes-winning offspring, some talented middle-distance horses, but the best of the six was the classic-placed triple Group 1-star Esoterique (Danehill Dancer).

In addition, she was also responsible for a trio of Group 2 winners, namely Russian Hope (Rock Hopper), Russian Cross (Cape Cross) and the subsequent sire Archange D’Or (Danehill).

Race record

KODI BEAR (IRE), Brown 2012. Won four races, £258,682, from 7 furlongs to 1 mile, at 2 and 3 years viz., Doom Bar Celebration Mile, Goodwood, Gr.2, Totepool Sovereign Stakes, Salisbury, Gr.3, Titanic Belfast Winkfield Stakes, Ascot, L, Unibet Midsummer Stakes, Windsor, L, also placed second in Dubai Dewhurst Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1.

At stud

Retired to Stud in 2017, and sire of the winners of 161 races, and £2,689,602, including GO BEARS GO (IRE), EVER GIVEN (IRE), DIABLOTINE (IRE), MEASURE OF MAGIC (IRE), MYSTERY ANGEL (IRE), COBH (IRE), Scarlet Bear (IRE), Helens Well (IRE), Misty Ayr (IRE), Broxi (IRE), Beautiful Bay (IRE), and Mutamaiezah (IRE)

Information

Stands at: Rathbarry Stud, Fermoy, Co. Cork, P61 TX22, Ireland.

Contact: Catherine Cashman, Paul and Susan Cashman, Francis and Niamh Woods, Paul McCarthy and Micheál Fahy

Telephone: +353 25 36362

Email: info@rathbarrystud.com

Web: www.rathbarrystud.com

Fee: €15,000