One Cool Cat?

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As a total non-breeding person (know some more famous stallions :p) but is the tb stallion One Cool Cat good breeding? All I know is that he stood at Coolmore!

Only asking as we seem to have aquired a 2 year old by him, poor & unhandled to now but is pretty well built & has good bone. She is a full tb btw :)
Do his progency have any particular traits?
And if anyone has a horse by him would love to see photos!
If anyone wants to see a pic of the 2 year old pm me :)
 
He's still around as a TB sire - Coolmore sold him in 2009 to the Korean Racing Authority and he stands at Jeju in S.Korea now. He used to shuttle to Cambridge Stud in NZ but I don't think he did in 2010 due to lack of demand. He was a moderate racing sire, never produced anything of real note and did better in NZ and Aus than he did in the Northern Hemisphere.

Storm Cats are usually pretty feisty and sharp.
 
At the yard I work at we have 3 horses by him, 2 geldings and a filly. As colts the two geldings were very bitey and would kick quite badly, but were very sweet when they had a good day and now as geldings, one is very cuddly but both try to bite as you walk past their stables. The filly is quite sweet, but can be a bit nuts when the mood takes her. They seem to have similar temprements (sp), highly strung, bitey, all three very strong up the gallops! But none of them look alike .. I would post pictures but as they're not my horses I wouldn't like to. :)
 
echo to say that Storm Cat's (OCC's sire) are generally V fiesty, but like with lots of things, it does depend what you've got it mixed with, have heard questions about soundness from Storm cats as well, but again, depends what you've mixed it with
 
One Cool Cat = hot, sweaty, highly strung and gutless in a finish. Main reason that trainers went so cold on the sire. One by OCC in the string could upset the lot.

That is speaking as a general rule of course, there are always exceptions to prove it. But just giving the general perception in the breeding industry.
 
We've got a one cool cat gelding at work - nickname is Ronnie Kray which tells you a lot!

He is small and weedy for a 4yo, won a few sprint races for us in his time, but had a lot more ability than desire. Managed to dead heat twice I think, just because he didn't fancy putting that extra bit of effort in, no matter how hard the jockey pushed!

He isn't a great mover (no trot) and has no desire to jump (will go over poles if forced, but much keener to avoid them). On the plus side he has a huge personality and is actually well liked despite his naughty traits, he is very sound and tough. Will live out in the field with no shoes on quite happily.

As a gelding he is not a bad ride, puts a few cheeky bucks in but nothing nasty. As a colt I think he was much more boisterous!
 
He himself was the last Keeneland July Yearling Sale at $3.1m. I've worked with a few by him, the one with the worst temperament as a foal/yearling, turned out to be arguably one of his best progeny on the track and that was only a Listed winner...
 
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I have a 6yr old gelding by him, lovely paces and fantastic conformation, raced three times as a 3yr old but was nowhere, he also jumps but can be a little stress head. ( For sale by the way )
 
I broke in a 2 year old OCC colt a couple of years ago, smart little horse and I thought the world of him, but he was a sharp little sod as well!

ETA: oops, Zombie thread!
 
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