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Originally Posted by Sightseek

Bummer! Thanks for the info. Fine horse.

A legend! :tro: :)

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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

A legend! :tro: :)

That too!

He was lovingly refered to as the kindest horse in HK on all the Hk threads.

When his stable mate, Vengeance of Rain, was sent to quarantine before a trip to Dubai the owner of Syllabus (Sir John Swaine) graciously allowed his horse to remain with VOR so he wouldn't be lonely.

Syllabus began his career in Hong Kong in Class 4 but moved up quickly his second season (Class 4 to 1).

A member of the illustrious Top 50, Syllabus, a 9 year old gelding, retires with a rating of 109.

I can't decide which race to post as his finest moment so I'll post them all.

http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/h...&Option=1#htop

Thanks for the memories. :)

El Segundo (NZ) Retired
06 Apr 2010
Racingandsports.com.au

Popular galloper El Segundo (NZ) has been retired after being injured in last weekend's Group One George Ryder Stakes over 1500m at Rosehill.

In what was his first trip to Sydney in his long career, the rising nine-year-old sustained a tendon injury after finishing fifth behind Danleigh.

Caulfield trainer Colin Little described El Segundo, by Pins out of the Oak Ridge mare Palos Verdes, as the best horse he has trained and said the gelding had given him and connections six seasons of thrills, most of which were at the top level.

El Segundo , consistently ranked one of the highest Timeform rated horses in the country, won 12 races including four at Group 1 level, including the 2007 Cox Plate. He was narrowly beaten the previous year and finished fourth in the race again last year.

His other Group 1 wins were the 2007 C.F. Orr Stakes, the 2006 Underwood Stakes and the 2005 Yalumba Stakes.

He won from 1200m to 2040m and collected almost $4 million in prizemoney despite being plagued by injuries.

http://www.thoroughbrednews.com.au/s....aspx?id=46078

Wanted and Light Fantastic...

Armada...

Illustrious Hong Kong G1 winner, member of the Top 50.

He retires with a rating of 116 which puts him right around 20th.

He won 6 of 6 his first season in HK (was withrawn once). That's Class 4 to Class 1 all in one season.

Ran in Tokyo a few times...

Here's one of his best wins (too many to choose from)... The Stewards' Cup.

I mean look who he beat!

Race Meeting: 28/01/2007 Sha Tin

RACE 8(345)
3 YEAR OLDS AND UPWARDS - 1600 Metres
THE STEWARDS' CUP
HK$ 8,000,000.00

1 5 ARMADA (E246) D Whyte J Size 126 1132 4 - 1.34.10 2.1
2 10 HELLO PRETTY (E210) F Coetzee A S Cruz 126 1145 1 1-1/4 1.34.30 7.1
3 3 VIVA PATACA (G096) C Soumillon J Moore 126 1139 7 1-3/4 1.34.40 5.5
4 2 BULLISH LUCK (C155) B Prebble A S Cruz 126 1240 12 4 1.34.70 12
5 1 VENGEANCE OF RAIN (D142) A Delpech D E Ferraris 126 1200 2 4-1/2 1.34.80 9.1
6 4 THE DUKE (B282) O Doleuze C Fownes 126 1169 3 4-3/4 1.34.90 9.3
7 6 JOYFUL WINNER (E045) D Beadman J Moore 126 1093 13 5-1/4 1.34.90 21
8 11 AIN'T HERE (C288) G Mosse D J Hall 126 1159 6 5-1/2 1.35.00 79
9 9 HELENE PILLAGING (C084) D Nikolic A S Cruz 126 1250 8 5-1/2 1.35.00 99
10 12 DAVE'S BEST (C060) M Nunes C H Yip 126 1124 11 6-1/2 1.35.10 39
11 7 ART TRADER (E131) E Saint-Martin J Moore 126 1072 5 7-1/4 1.35.30 53
12 13 HAPPEE OWNER (E230) A Starke A S Cruz 126 1092 9 7-1/4 1.35.30 99
13 8 BOWMAN'S CROSSING (B138) S Dye C Fownes 126 1147 10 9-3/4 1.35.70 54

http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/r...2007&raceno=08

An amazing horse... hope he has a long and happy retirement.

She'll Be Doggone...

http://www.drf.com/news/article/112335.html

Mushka...

http://www.drf.com/news/article/112321.html

11 year old Superstar War of Attrition, who was (a very close!) 2nd (in the Grade 1 Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup) today...

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse...ps/706448/top/

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...268538545.html

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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat (Post 644422)

Sinbad the Sailor...

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35631

The old F'Lakes mainstay? He was in the maiden that Macho Uno won at Saratoga!

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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat (Post 644422)

Sinbad the Sailor...

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35631

:tro:

I started a thread (last year maybe?) about favorite claimers -- he was mine. I hope he has a great home and enjoys retirement!

Happy retirement to a champion...

Two-time champion Good Night Shirt retired
Written by Sean Clancy
May 06, 2010
Good night, Shirt.

Two-time Eclipse Award winner Good Night Shirt has been retired. The 9-year-old injured his ankle after finishing second in the Iroquois last spring and was unable to heal properly to return to the races. Dr. Dean Richardson performed surgery on the injury last year and after an extensive rehabilitation, the horse’s return to racing was deemed impossible. Owned by Sonny and Ann Via, Good Night Shirt retires as the second leading money earner in the sport’s history and one of just two horses to earn more than $1 million in American steeplechasing.

Good Night Shirt will live out his days with another Fisher champion, six-time Virginia Gold Cup winner Saluter, at Fisher’s Maryland farm.

“He’s sound in the field and that’s important,” Fisher said. “I was worried we might have to put him down. We were worried about his quality of life but it looks like he’ll be able to have a good retirement.”

Bred by Dr. Tom and Chris Bowman, Good Night Shirt won twice on the flat in 2004 before being sold to Via and Fisher. The infield sport proved a perfect niche for the stamina-laden, long-galloping chestnut. He broke his maiden in the demanding Nashville maiden race as a 4-year-old in 2005. Unpolished and raw, he won on talent alone. That summer, he won a Saratoga allowance before losing five consecutive novice stakes through the fall and the following spring. Later in 2006, he won a weak edition of the Ferguson and finished second to Hirapour in Saratoga’s A.P. Smithwick before missing the fall season. One step from becoming a timber horse in 2007, Good Night Shirt showed he was for real when rallying to just miss in the Royal Chase. At 21-1, in his first open Grade I stakes start, he missed nailing Mixed Up by a diminishing neck.

That’s when things changed.

He won the Iroquois in his next start and went 9-for-11 over the next two years. Finally able to ration his pace and polish his jumping, Good Night Shirt knocked McDynamo from the Eclipse podium with wins in the Lonesome Glory and Colonial Cup in 2007.

And, well, 2008 was one of the best seasons in history for any horse in any sport. Perfection is hard to top. Under Willie Dowling, Good Night Shirt started five times and won five times, picking off the Georgia Cup, Iroquois, Lonesome Glory, Grand National and Colonial Cup (each a Grade I). Employing a punishing resolve on or near the lead, Good Night Shirt had no peers. In 2009, he returned to win the Carolina Cup before being caught late by Pierrot Lunaire in the Iroquois while trying to become the first horse to win three consecutive runnings of the 3-mile classic.

Rested for the summer as usual, Good Night Shirt returned to training in the fall but was soon on the sidelines – and at New Bolton Center – with the ankle injury. Surgery helped stabilize the joint, as did months of exercise on an underwater treadmill, but the scant hopes of a return to racing were snuffed out.

“He was just a pleasure to train, just a pleasure to have in the field,” Fisher said. “Even the landscaping people, they show up, a guy who knows nothing about horses looks out in the field and says, ‘I like that one.’ It’s Shirt, standing there, turning his lip up. Just a cool a horse. People say go find me another Good Night Shirt or find me another Saluter and I tell them, ‘They don’t make them.’ ”

In all, Good Night Shirt won 14 races from 33 starts and earned $1,041,083. Over jumps, he won 12 races and earned $1,006,493 from 23 starts. He never fell.

http://www.st-publishing.com/cms/ind...1214&Itemid=73

Are there 35 pages in this thread or 36?

Oh wow, that's really weird!

After 700 the board may blow, therefore no more horses can retire.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrr!

nice story
http://arrrrrjourney.blogspot.com/

Happy retirement, Silverfoot.

Thanks for the memories. :)

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...erfoot-retired

Happy retirement to a consummate professional, a horse with a heart as big as Phar Lap, a hard knocker (he almost died earlier in his career), a horse who defines racing.

He didn't always win but he always gave it everything he had. Always.

Happy retirement to Jonesboro.

Hope he has a long, happy and healthy life and gets to go somewhere nice.

From Mick Channon...

SOM TALA RETIRES

It's with great sadness that we must announce the retirement of the 2009 Northumberland Plate winner SOM TALA with immediate effect. A reoccurance of an old injury in the Ascot Stakes last week led to an acceptance of the inevitable. The old boy has had enough.

Although only seven, "Sommie" has plenty of miles on the clock, with joints and tendons that were certainly well tested in the tough staying handicaps on summer ground over the past five seasons. Mick reflected today on the career of a proper racehorse.

"Som Tala was a superb servant to West Ilsley Stables and a proper character who will be missed by everybody. He had his problems throughout his career and we just had to go softly with him at times, but he always bounced back and had a truly admirable attitude both in his work and on the track.

"He was placed fourth and second in the Chester Cup and was a perennial feature in the Ascot Stakes where he was 3rd in 2007 and 5th in 2008 - always under weighty marks. Last year's Pitman's Derby was obviously his career highpoint, he was so tough that day and although many accused us of nicking the race under an inspired front-running ride from Tony Culhane, he deserved his day after so many near misses.

"We all love him and it's just great that he's entering into Darley's rehabilitation and retraining scheme. They always do right by their horses and he's deserves nothing else than care and attention before embarking on what we all hope will be a long and enjoyable career away from the racecourse."

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Line of David... (for the sake of trying to keep this up to date)...

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36740

Chinese White, who won the Pretty Polly today...

http://www.racingpost.com/news/bloodstock/

Why did I think we had already posted this (ed)???

Ms. Daffodil Diva...

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse...international/

God I wish you would retire already.

GUess it's better than you wanting me on the other thread. :p

Soooo if I retire will you write a nice little thing like I do for the HK kids?

Will you keep an eye on my octopus thread for me and let me know if he ever gets the red shoes and the hat?

Will you post about Singapore and other places that no one actually cares about? :D

Will you do the occassional swoon post at inappropriate times and take you-know-whos side even though it's not popular?

Will you post rap songs on the whatcha listening to thingie?

Will you play nice with the new people and keep the dooryard open for me?