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Moscow Flyer's sire put down

MOSCOW SOCIETY, sire of the great Moscow Flyer, was put down on Thursday night after suffering a leg injury. The 22-year-old son of Nijinsky had spent the last 18 years at Hugh Williams' Ballyvolane Stud in County Limerick, where he stood for €3,000 this year.

“He fractured a hind leg getting up in his box and we had to have him put down,” Williams said on Friday. “I bought him as a four-year-old out of training with Henry Cecil and he was a part of the furniture here.

“Although Moscow Flyer would be his best, he's had plenty of top horses and he's done me very well.He was always a National Hunt sire but he got a 5f winner as well so he was very versatile.”

While the 13-time Grade 1 winner Moscow Flyer was undoubtedly Moscow Society's best runner, the sire was responsible for a number of outstanding jumps performers.

Among them are the smart young chaser Snowy Morning, along with Mighty Moss, runner-up to Istabraq in the Royal & Sunalliance Novices' Hurdle, and the prolific Moscow Express, winner of the Grade 1 Powers Gold Label Tote Gold Cup at Fairyhouse.

Owned by Sheikh Mohammed, Moscow Society ran just twice during his racing career. He made a winning debut under Steve Cauthen over 1m4f at Doncaster in the May of his three-year-old season, having been sent of the heavy odds on favourite.

That result earned him a trip to Royal Ascot to contest the Listed Queen's Vase, where he was beaten only three-quarters of a length by Green Adventure, having pulled seven lengths clear of the field. Having been struck into during the race, Moscow Society didn't race again.