Sir Greeley...soft cannon bone. He didn't hurt himself, but the decision was made to stop on him before he did. He was never a superstar, but he was always there, and put in a few real good races. He went out with a nice GIII win.

Edenwold...

Greg's Gold...

http://www.drf.com/news/article/94308.html

For anyone who missed this.....

http://www.ntra.com/video.aspx?id=28425

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Apparently Trotamondo was retired.....

http://www.racingandsports.com.au/br...D=126478&id=FP

Honor in War...

http://www.thoroughbrednews.co.nz/sp...cing/?id=34765

Dao Dao, HK runner rated #24 who was just nominated to the Yasuda Kinen.....

Damn.....I had been so looking forward to that race.

I was worried.

I'd actually heard about his retirement last night but wasn't sure if i should post it or wait... didn't wanna upset you.

Anyway, here...

http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/R...p?HorseNo=H308

Now you can relive his races over and over.

You can thank me another time... :p

Nice runner. He has about 9 lines of Barcaldine. Barcaldine was known for his large Cannon Bones. 9 lines is not a lot of Barcaldine. A relationship here ?

Jump Start has 8 lines of Barcaldine thru 10 gens. He had cannon bone fracture ending career.

Excerpt, SCMP.....


Meanwhile, Dao Dao, one of the rising stars, has been retired and will be returned to competition in Australia under trainer John Hawkes.

Owner Lee Kwai-sang told trainer John Size, and confirmed in an e-mail to the South China Morning Post, he believes Dao Dao "is not good enough" for Hong Kong and he'll be replaced by another horse he has bred.

Size and jockey Douglas Whyte believed Dao Dao could measure up to the very best milers next season, but in the wake of his disappointing but unlucky run in the Champions Mile Lee was not convinced and made his shock decision to pull the gelding out.

Size said he tried to reason with the owner, assuring him of his personal belief Dao Dao would be a worthy top-grade performer next term, but to no avail.

Lee told of a "feeling of guilt" when he watched Dao Dao winning easily under topweight of 133 pounds at his previous run on April 6.

"I don't want to ask them to keep on running faster until they break down," Lee added.

The owner said Dao Dao, together with his Hong Kong-Macau Trophy winner Slow Waltz, would be "let back to nature for a nice holiday" before joining the Hawkes team.

Hawkes was the original trainer of Dao Dao, with the gelding racing three times in Sydney for two wins and a second to subsequent Group One winner Sniper's Bullet.

The difference being that Sir Greeley raced thru age 6 and started nearly 30 times, while Jump Start made just 5 career starts, all at 2.

Smokey Stover.....

http://www.drf.com/news/article/94702.html

Can we reserve a spot for Big Brown on this thread?

Nobiz Like Showbiz was retired due to a suspensory injury:
http://www.drf.com/news/article/94801.html

Well, I guess he's not going to prove to be the best from his crop as I had predicted before the 2007 Derby.

No one tell Andy.

Don't worry, I won't tell him.
I don't even want to consider what it might do to his fragile mental health if he began to think - even for one second - that he could no longer count on your predictions.

Not sure how old this news is but gotta list my Derby boy from another year,

The one, the only, Deputy Glitters (applause! :D ).

Happy retirement, Sparkles. It was nothing but fun losing $ on you.

(Oh God, just had a Wood flashback.....) :confused: :( :D

Happy retirement to Pillow King... the former Kahn, who had been 2nd to Manduro once upon a time ( in the G3 Oppenheim Pramerica-Preis des Winterfavoriten) before going to HK.

He started off there at the Class 2 level but gradually (being nice here....) slid down down down (to Class 5) and won a total of 1 start (outta 32 tries).

Aaaah well, he tried and they're not all Man o' War.

Happy retirement. Hope he gets to go somewhere nice now. :)

(Sorry, Phil...)

Panty Raid.....

http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/article/45430.htm

:( Torn suspensory is tough to come back from 100%.

had a feeling she wouldn't come back when they said torn suspensory...