Originally Posted by Rare Bog (Post 835245)

Princess Arabella Retired

By
Marcus Hersh

Princess Arabella was injured while training for her next race the overnight Antebellum 75K.

The future Grade 1 winner has been retired from racing to stand stud at Millennium Farms in Kentucky, it was announced.

Though just a few races into her glorious career Princess Arabella might have raced again during 2012 had she not sustained a hind-end injury while training. She hurt her hind end late in morning training hours when another horse – one of only a couple out on the track at the time – ducked in sharply from the outside fence and slammed into Princes Arabella, who was in the midst of a routine gallop.

The Tarras owners will remain part-owners of her as a stallion, and she will stand for a fee of $7,500.

Originally Posted by golfer (Post 836970)

Worked again today, 7 furlongs in 1:24 flat

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi (Post 836972)

I wonder if Bob Baffert will put both Princess Arabella and Eden's Moon together in the Las Virgenes. I suppose if a first condition comes up, one will be re-routed there.

I fully expect the form of the Santa Ysabel-Hollywood Starlet-Sharp Cat Stakes to be murdered to shreds once these two fillies and Reneesgotzip reappear.

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord (Post 838213)

Yeah. She beat absolutely nothing at odds of 1-to-9 and a Cal Bred Maiden Claiming race will get a slightly better number in the 1st.

Clear trip. She was merely hand-ridden but a top class 7f young female should have been a lot more impressive with similar handling.

Originally Posted by golfer (Post 838209)

In what was pretty much a parimutuel work-out, she wins handily going 7f in 1:22 and 1. Broke much better, but still rated while 3 wide, took over and won while being encouraged, but still hand ridden.

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord (Post 838213)

Yeah. She beat absolutely nothing at odds of 1-to-9 and a Cal Bred Maiden Claiming race will get a slightly better number in the 1st.

Clear trip. She was merely hand-ridden but a top class 7f young female should have been a lot more impressive with similar handling.

Originally Posted by golfer (Post 838219)

I'm not exactly sure how much more she could have done given the circumstances. I wouldn't be negative about the race, at least she proved she could get out of the gate effectively today.