Equine Retirements, Long Term Injuries and Departures

[Ardross]

Ryanair Chase winner Uxizandre is out for the season

That's a blow - after his Ryanair win he looked like he could do well over 2 miles this year .

 

[Ballydoyle]

Foildubh in the Galway Plate

 

[Grey]

And also Make A Track, alas

 

[Diamond Geezer]

Pigeon Island retired and been given a home by Paddy Brennan

 

[moehat]

Good to hear that; I'm sure he'll be well looked after by Paddy. I assume he must have been very fond of the horse when he rode for NTD.

 

[Diamond Geezer]

Loving Spirit collapsed and died at Goodwood

 

[trudij]

Dg, I think you might have the wrong thread....

 

[Diamond Geezer]

Dg, I think you might have the wrong thread....

Oh..........yeah :lol::lol:, will delete

 

[Grasshopper]

Foildubh in the Galway Plate

Pretty sick at this news. He was right up there with Camden Tanner, in terms of moderate Irish yokes I couldn't help backing over the years.

 

[Frankel]

Astaire lost due to colic.

 

[Cruella]

Astaire lost due to colic.

That's a shame, he was one of my current favourites - not least because he was brilliantly named.

 

[Irish Stamp]

Group 2 winner and Grand Steeplechase De Paris/Prix La Haye Jousselin regular Pibrac was killed in a fall at Clairefontaine on Saturday - he amassed a total of 875,000 (Euro's) since debuting on the flat at Fontainebleau in 2007.

Martin

 

[Grasshopper]

Pisser, Martin.

 

[Diamond Geezer]

Andrew McNamara hanging up his boots at Tramore this weekend, going training

 

[granger]

Good luck to him. He might say differently but am sure the impact racing has had on his family in recent years played a role in this

 

[Diamond Geezer]

Night Of Thunder, the only horse to beat Kingman, has been retired

 

[jinnyj]

Reported on Facebook that Swing Bill succumbed to colic

 

[trudij]

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[moehat]

Just read this on facebook. Poor beautiful Bill. Bl**dy bl**dy colic. Damn.

 

[Diamond Geezer]

Olly Stevens will not be renewing his trainer’s licence next year despite having enjoyed significant top-level success in three brief years at the helm of Sheikh Fahad’s Robins Farm Racing operation near Chiddingfold in Surrey.

 

[jinnyj]

That's a fair shock, DG! Having just read the RP report, I wonder how much more there is to it. I realise that any salaried job however much desired can be a very hard role to maintain and possibly the pressure on top of having a young family puts things into perspective. A great shame as he had done so well, so quickly.

 

[LUKE]

Not sure if it's a David O' Brien scenario or if he was pushed.If he did it for his children fair dues to him.

 

[Tanlic]

If I heard them correctly on WH radio Lindsay Charnock passed away today?

 

[jinnyj]

Being reported as so on Facebook -very sad news.

 

[icebreaker]

Oh, that's very sad.
Didn't he have a leg amputated some years ago, but continued to ride out at Easterby's using a prosthetic limb?
Rest in peace, Lindsay.