Wings Of Eagles, whose 40-1 victory in the Derby was the biggest surprise in the Classic since the 1970s, has been retired from racing a month after his Epsom success after he was found to have fractured a leg when finishing third in the Irish Derby on Saturday. Wings Of Eagles finished just a neck and a short head behind Capri and Cracksman, having beaten Cracksman by about a length when the two horses finished first and third in the Derby at Epsom. Aidan O’Brien’s colt was not obviously lame after the race and was prominent in ante-post betting for races including the St Leger in September, but a career-ending injury fracture of his left front sesamoid bone was diagnosed on Sunday morningO’Brien said here that the fracture was so significant that it cast a fresh light on Wings Of Eagles’ performance on Saturday. “We’re very lucky that it didn’t come apart during the race,” the trainer said. “You’re always worried when they pull out in the morning [after a race] and when he pulled out, he was very sore. When he was x-rayed, his sesamoid was coming apart. “It’s incredible that he ran the race that he did really. We’re very sorry to lose him, he was an unusual horse who
http://www.authenticchicagoblackhawks.com/authentic-erik-gustafsson-jersey?gender=Youth stayed very well but quickened very well. When John [Magnier, one of the colt’s owners] saw the x-ray, there was absolutely no chance that he would ever race again and I think he might have a pin put in it on Monday. “I was speaking to JP [Magnier] on the way home last night and saying that he was a perfect horse to have a midsummer break and then give him a prep for the Arc. That’s the type of horse that we thought he was going to be.” Wings Of Eagles registered just a single success from four starts as a two-year-old, though he was held in sufficient regard to run in the Group 1 Critérium de St Cloud on his final outing, a race in which Capri started favourite and finished third while Wings Of Eagles, an outsider in the betting, finished ninth. He was also beaten in his first start at three, finishing second to Venice Beach, also a stable companion, in the Chester Vase, but he got his head in front for the second and final time in the Derby itself, staying on strongly under Padraig Beggy to overhaul another O’Brien-trained runner, Cliffs Of Moher, by three-quarters of a length. Advertisement “He ran in a Group One at two and he ran a very respectable race,” O’Brien said. “A lot of our horses would be those prices because we’d have four or five in it and because some of the lads might have been riding them, and people jump to conclusions. But we wouldn’t be running them if we didn’t think they could win those races, and we always viewed him
Glenn Hall Womens Jersey as a very high-class colt.” Wings Of Eagles, a son of the 2011 Derby winner Pour Moi, is expected to take up stallion duties at Coolmore Stud next year. O’Brien reported that his remaining runners in Saturday’s Classic, including Capri, “all pulled out fine” on Sunday morning, but also that Minding, the winner of five Group One races last year including the 1,000 Guineas and the Oaks, will need more time than expected to recover from a setback in the spring. It also emerged on Sunday that Somehow, the winner of the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes in May, has been put down after suffering an injury on the gallops. “We had Minding pencilled in to start back driving on Monday but when John [Halley, O’Brien’s vet] x-rayed her, he wasn’t happy to do that,” O’Brien said. “He wanted to leave her another month. We’ll leave her another month, but if we go another month we could run out of time, I’m not sure. “Somehow got a fracture behind on her cannon bone and we were unable to fix it. It’s a real pity as she was such a good filly, and had progressed well this season.” O’Brien missed out in
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