Sad news, from Racing Post...
Injured champ Adlerflug faces early retirement
By David Conolly-Smith4.06PM 27 MAY 2009
GERMAN champion Adlerflug has almost certainly run his last race after fracturing a cannon bone while working on Tuesday morning.
A team of surgeons were flown over from Newmarket to operate on the In The Wings five-year-old in Germany on Wednesday afternoon.
Trained by Jens Hirschberger, Adlerflug won the German Derby in 2007 and finished runner-up in the last two renewals of the Grosser Preis von Baden. On his most recent outing, he narrowly failed to steal second behind Vision d'Etat in the Prix Ganay. He had been an intended runner in Sunday's Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly.
Peligroso, a Group-winning juvenile for trainer Mario Hofer last November, is set to make his debut for Godolphin after being supplemented for Monday's Group 3 Bavarian Classic at Munich.
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