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http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/sho...289#post627289 Cosmo Bulk. A fine memory... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZ_R...eature=related |
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. :) |
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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 $4 million in prizemoney despite being plagued by injuries. http://www.thoroughbrednews.com.au/s....aspx?id=46078 |
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Illustrious Hong Kong G1 winner, member of the Top 50. He retires with a rating of 116 which puts him right around 20th. He won 6 of 6 his first season in HK (was withrawn once). That's Class 4 to Class 1 all in one season. Ran in Tokyo a few times... Here's one of his best wins (too many to choose from)... The Stewards' Cup. I mean look who he beat! Race Meeting: 28/01/2007 Sha Tin RACE 8(345) 3 YEAR OLDS AND UPWARDS - 1600 Metres THE STEWARDS' CUP HK$ 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. |
Stardom Bound...
http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35534 Silver Birch... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukp...2T6SohL43NX-qQ |
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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 |
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