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Sis City breezes into retirement


In little more than 30 minutes on Saturday morning at Saratoga Race Course, Grade 1 winner Sis City went from possibly making another start on the turf to retirement.

Winless in six starts since capturing the 2005 Ashland Stakes (G1) at Keeneland Race Course last spring, Sis City breezed six furlongs over the main track at Saratoga Race Course in 1:15.04, after which trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. said a possible start on the Saratoga turf -- possibly within the week -- was in her future.

A half-hour later, Dutrow said Sis City would be retired to co-owner Stonerside Stable's farm in Paris, Kentucky.

"We're going to stop on her," Dutrow said. "She's done with racing."

Earlier, Dutrow said he was "satisfied with the filly.

"I don't think it matters what we do anymore," Dutrow said. "I don't think that she is going to do what she did when she was late in her two-year-old, early three-year-old years.

"We tried everything in the world, she's been training like a stake horse every day, but I don't understand it, but I don't need to understand it," Dutrow said. "I have tried to put my best people around her, they all tell me how great she is, Edgar (Prado) loved the way she ran last time on the grass [a fourth-place finish in the Capades Stakes on July 14 at Belmont Park]."

Sis City was claimed from a maiden race for $50,000 as a two-year-old and went on to win five of 15 starts and earn $795,764. In addition to the Ashland Stakes, Sis City won the 2004 Demoiselle Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct and 2005 Davona Dale (G2) at Gulfstream Park, and finished third in the 2005 Frizette Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park.--Warren Alber