Kodi Bear gets off the mark with a rapid-fire double of winning debutantes

Kodi Bear became the latest first-season sire to get off the mark on Tuesday, and he did so in spectacular fashion with a double of successful debutantes in the space of 20 minutes.

First up, daughter Campachoochoo was an impressive scorer in a 5f maiden auction fillies' stakes at Chelmsford.

Not long after that another filly, Follow Suit, lived up to her name by taking a 6f novice auction stakes at Wolverhampton.

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Campachoochoo

Follow Suit

Campachoochoo won by a commanding two lengths from Eve Johnson Houghton's Equiano filly Tattoo, with Furlong Factor – a daughter of another freshman sire in Adaay – a length and a quarter back in third.

Campachoochoo is trained by David O'Meara for Gallop Racing, having been purchased by Colm Sharkey and Jason Kelly for £12,000 from the Trickledown Stud draft at the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale last September.

She was earlier a €10,000 purchase by the intriguingly named Duck Bloodstock at the Goffs November Foal Sale.

Campachoochoo was bred by Carrigbeg Stud and David Powell. She is the eighth foal and seventh winner out of Divert, a winning Averti half-sister to useful Hong Kong performer Solid Approach, as well as to Bahati and Devious Diva, the dams of smart pair Tabarrak and Realtra respectively.

Follow Suit scored by a short head from the Mark Johnston-trained Toronado colt Cuban Dancer, with Vamoos, a son of first-season sire Vadamos representing Mick Channon, back in third.

The winning filly is trained and owned by Clive Cox, who oversaw Kodi Bear's racing career, and she was bred by Cox's wife Tina.

Follow Suit is the third winner out of the Red Clubs mare Malilla, a Newbury maiden winner who ran a fair sixth in the Dick Poole Fillies' Stakes at two for the Coxes.

Further back it is the family of Prince of Wales's Stakes victor Faithful Son and his Coventry Stakes-winning half-brother Always Fair, as well as Irish Oaks heroine Lailani.

Kodi Bear, a son of the prolific Kodiac, was towards the top of the class at two, winning the Winkfield Stakes and finding only Belardo too good in the Dewhurst.

In the following season he won the Sovereign Stakes and Celebration Mile by wide margins, and although he did not score at four he was not far behind Belardo in the Lockinge or Tepin in the Queen Anne Stakes that year.

Kodi Bear joined the stallion roster at Rathbarry Stud in County Cork in 2017 and covered a debut book of 109 mares, giving him a first crop of 83 two-year-olds to go to war with in 2020.

Although the season is still so young, delayed as it has been by the coronavirus pandemic, Kodi Bear already has several other promising representatives.

His son Digital was a length second at Newcastle on his debut for Kevin Ryan last Tuesday and Scarlet Bear ran third on her first outing for Tom Dascombe at Haydock on Sunday.

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