Racing Post.....
Falmouth heroine retired
by Paul Eacott
RAJEEM, a shock winner of last season's Group 1 Falmouth Stakes, has been retired after Clive Brittain admitted defeat in his battle to get her back on the track after a number of niggling problems.
The daughter of Diktat has not been seen since she defeated Nannina by three-quarters of a length at Newmarket last July and that race, where she also had Group 1 winners Peeress and Soviet Song behind when sent off 50-1, proved to be her last.
"We decided that she had already won a Group 1 and she had done enough - she didn't need to prove anything else,” Brittain said on Friday. "She's gone to America and she's going to be covered out there.
"She hasn't raced this season. At the end of last year I was hoping we were going to have a good season with her and she got over her first injury but then she got another niggle.”
Saeed Manana's filly ran a total of ten times, amassing £140,152 in win and place prize-money.
After making an inauspicious start to her career when being beaten 15 lengths in a Windsor maiden over 6f, she finally lost her maiden tag at the fourth time of asking when stepped up to a mile at Nottingham in September 2005.
She followed that up with a half-length success in the Listed Montrose Stakes on the Rowley Mile the following month, but failed to make the frame in her first four starts as a three-year-old, including when finishing fifth in the Coronation Stakes, before fulfilling her trainer's faith with her all the way win on the July Course.
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(Oh and the rumor is Jeannine Edwards now has Ashkal Way. Can't confirm it but have heard it from 4 different people now.....)
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