Eagles By Day
Bay, 2016, 16.2hh, retired sound in wind and limb
Group Winning Son of SEA THE STARS – Sire of Affinisea and Crystal Ocean
Dam MISSUNITED winner of 12 races under both codes inc. Gr.3 Lillie Langtry Stakes, Goodwood and Guinness Galway Handicap Hurdle, 2nd Gr.1 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot
From the family of proven National Hunt sire Kings Ride
First crops of foals have sold for: €23,000, €21,000 x2, €20,000, etc
100% of foals bay or brown in colour – source Weatherbys Stud Books
First Crop 3-Y-O’s 2026
Won Gr.3 Silver Cup Stakes, York
Won British EBF Maiden Stakes, Salisbury
2nd Gr.3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes, Ascot
3rd Gr.2 King Edward VII Stakes, Royal Ascot
4th Gr.1 Goodwood Cup, Goodwood
Colt Foal x Liss Croga
‘As good a foal as I ever had.’
Niall Flynn, Five Naughts Stud
2YO Filly x Jessber’s Dream,
bred by Rathbarry Stud
‘Eagles By Day is an outstanding looking individual with plenty of size and substance. He throws correct, athletic individuals and really stamps his stock. I’ve bought some lovely foals by him at the sales and I look forward to breaking and training his first 3YO’s next year.’
Paul Cashman
‘I have used Eagles By Day from the start as he’s a good looking horse himself. I like that he’s by Champion Sire Sea The Stars and out of the top-class dual purpose mare Missunited. He’s breeding nice bay foals with a bit of size and quality. I have mares back in foal to him again this year.’
David Fenton, Hillview Stud
‘I saw foals by Eagles By Day at the sales and a friend bought a lovely foal by him. They are very good looking foals with a good outlook. His dam Missunited was very tough and a top class race mare herself so if Eagles By Days’ foals could be as tough as her they will be good horses. I have three mares in foal to Eagles By Day this year.’
Tom Keating
‘Eagles By Day is by a proven sire and out of a great tough dam, that’s what I like about him and he’s breeding cracking individuals.’
Jimmy Mangan of Conna Stud who sold his colt x Marvellous Monty for €21,000 at the 2024 Goffs December NH Sale
‘‘I would be very positive about the sire (Eagles By Day). You couldn’t get a nicer filly than the Russian Maze, very straight forward, correct, a great mover with a lovely temperament and a good size.’
James Sheehan of Clonmult Farm consignor of filly x Russian Maze who sold for €21,000 at the 2024 Goffs December NH Sale
‘On the strength of the Eagles By Day foals that I bred, I have continued to support the stallion. They were very well put together with great bone, size and substance. Very quiet to handle and great walkers.’
Maurice O’Brien of Dromahane Stud who sold his colt x For Lena (pictured above) for €23,000 at the 2024 Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale
Yearling Colt x For Lena,
bred by Dromahane Stud
‘One stallion who Ferris will be paying a lot more attention to from now on is Eagles By Day, the son of Sea The Stars and Missunited who stands at Glenview Stud. The Glebe Farm consigns the only youngster in the sale from the second crop of the Group 3 Silver Cup winner and Ferris has been impressed by this colt. ‘The Eagles By Day is a great advertisement for the stallion. He’s very correct and has a great walk. He’s just a really nice foal. I’ll be looking out for Eagles By Day’s stock now on the strength of this foal’.
Jackie Ferris of The Glebe Farm, Racing Post 27th Jan 2025
