Retirements.....

[sumitas]

Originally Posted by Getaway

Sir Greeley...soft cannon bone. He didn't hurt himself, but the decision was made to stop on him before he did. He was never a superstar, but he was always there, and put in a few real good races. He went out with a nice GIII win.

Nice runner. He has about 9 lines of Barcaldine. Barcaldine was known for his large Cannon Bones. 9 lines is not a lot of Barcaldine. A relationship here ?

Jump Start has 8 lines of Barcaldine thru 10 gens. He had cannon bone fracture ending career.

[my miss storm cat]

Excerpt, SCMP.....


Meanwhile, Dao Dao, one of the rising stars, has been retired and will be returned to competition in Australia under trainer John Hawkes.

Owner Lee Kwai-sang told trainer John Size, and confirmed in an e-mail to the South China Morning Post, he believes Dao Dao "is not good enough" for Hong Kong and he'll be replaced by another horse he has bred.

Size and jockey Douglas Whyte believed Dao Dao could measure up to the very best milers next season, but in the wake of his disappointing but unlucky run in the Champions Mile Lee was not convinced and made his shock decision to pull the gelding out.

Size said he tried to reason with the owner, assuring him of his personal belief Dao Dao would be a worthy top-grade performer next term, but to no avail.

Lee told of a "feeling of guilt" when he watched Dao Dao winning easily under topweight of 133 pounds at his previous run on April 6.

"I don't want to ask them to keep on running faster until they break down," Lee added.

The owner said Dao Dao, together with his Hong Kong-Macau Trophy winner Slow Waltz, would be "let back to nature for a nice holiday" before joining the Hawkes team.

Hawkes was the original trainer of Dao Dao, with the gelding racing three times in Sydney for two wins and a second to subsequent Group One winner Sniper's Bullet.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Nice runner. He has about 9 lines of Barcaldine. Barcaldine was known for his large Cannon Bones. 9 lines is not a lot of Barcaldine. A relationship here ?

Jump Start has 8 lines of Barcaldine thru 10 gens. He had cannon bone fracture ending career.

The difference being that Sir Greeley raced thru age 6 and started nearly 30 times, while Jump Start made just 5 career starts, all at 2.

[my miss storm cat]

Smokey Stover.....

http://www.drf.com/news/article/94702.html

[slotdirt]

Can we reserve a spot for Big Brown on this thread?

[miraja2]

Nobiz Like Showbiz was retired due to a suspensory injury:
http://www.drf.com/news/article/94801.html

[justindew]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Nobiz Like Showbiz was retired due to a suspensory injury:
http://www.drf.com/news/article/94801.html

Well, I guess he's not going to prove to be the best from his crop as I had predicted before the 2007 Derby.

No one tell Andy.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by justindew

Well, I guess he's not going to prove to be the best from his crop as I had predicted before the 2007 Derby.

No one tell Andy.

Don't worry, I won't tell him.
I don't even want to consider what it might do to his fragile mental health if he began to think - even for one second - that he could no longer count on your predictions.