Cable Boss Update

Unfortunately, Cable Boss did not breeze back this weekend at Palm Meadows as his throat has become an issue again. As we all know, Cable Boss had a tie-back surgery before getting started in his career and it was quite the up-and-down journey getting him to the races. These procedures are never a guaranteed long-term (or sometimes even short-term) fix, but we were lucky to get seven runs in seven months. Things were looking up for this colt after breaking his maiden fairly easily at Horseshoe Indianapolis in November and returning to run a bang-up second in an FL-bred first-level allowance at Gulfstream Park. His next two starts were a fairly significant regression and while his throat did not appear to be a glaring issue at the time, perhaps it was playing a major factor.

Trainer Brendan Walsh felt that to continue racing Cable Boss competitively, it would need to be for a low-level claiming tag (I.e. $16K or less) which was not Brendan’s, MyRacehorse’s, or Bridlewood Farm’s preference. All parties agreed this wasn’t the right thing to do and, as a result, we have sent him back to Bridlewood Farm in Ocala. It may be a long shot, but being a half-sibling to Catholic Boy by a top stallion himself, we may be in a position to place him somewhere as a regional stallion. Your son of Quality Road has a great physical and pedigree to match. Realistically, he will have a ceiling of what he is worth as a stallion, but if we can work something out, we feel this is a better path than attempting to try to get him back to the races. If we can’t find him a place to stand at stud–which will admittedly be difficult with breeding season already in full swing–we still believe retiring him and finding him an alternative second career is preferable to dropping him down the class ladder.