Cable Bay, the sire of 2023 Oakleigh Plate winner Uncommon James and this year’s July Cup hero No Half Measures, has died at the age of 14.

The Northern Lights Stallion Syndicate, which purchased the son of Invincible Spirit to stand in India, announced Cable Bay’s death via a social media post.

“With profound sadness, we inform you that Cable Bay, the sire of the 2025 July Cup, Gr1 winner No Half Measures, as well as several individual black-type winners and performers, passed away last night,” read a syndicate statement.

“In the three years with us, he has given us quality foals and we hope that they can carry forward his legacy.”

Bred by the Irish National Stud, Cable Bay stood four seasons in Australia at Woodside Park.

His other Australian black-type winners included Bubba’s Boy (twice) and Flying Missile, successful in the Listed Placid Ark Stakes.

Cable Bay shuttled from his UK base at Highclere Stud between 2017 and 2020 before his transfer to Dr Kehar Singh Stud in India in 2022. 

In 2019, his first crop yielded 25 individual two-year-old winners in Europe.