Discreet Cat update.....

[my miss storm cat]

From Racing post.....

Break for Discreet Cat after switch is delayed

by Jon Lees

DISCREET CAT will not be back in racing action until the second half of the year after his switch from Dubai to the United States was delayed on Wednesday.

Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford reported the colt's recovery from a throat abscess was being continually monitored but progress was “slow” and as a result he would not be shipped to the US until some time next month.

Discreet Cat lost his unbeaten record when finishing last in the Dubai World Cup last month after which connections discovered he had “an aggressive
throat abscess”.

Crisford added: “He is still having treatment and making a slow recovery. We will have to delay his return to the United States and he will stay in Dubai until we can sort this out.

“Any plans we had for him early on in the campaignhave been shelved and that happened straight after the World Cup when we discovered this abscess.”

Before his defeat Discreet Cat, the joint-best three-year-old in the 2006 World Thoroughbred Rankings, had been due to be transferred to his American base this month with the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont among his early targets.

“We are not talking a lengthy delay, just a few weeks, and hopefully he will travel some time next month, depending on how his condition improves,” Crisford said.

“We were looking at the Met Mile at the end of May but that is out of the way now. We won't consider targets until we get him back into training. I'm afraid this will knock him back and it is going to take a few months to get him back on the racetrack. It would be unrealistic to assume he will be racing before the second half of the year.”

Discreet Cat is a 12-1 chance with Coral for the Breeders' Cup Classic, for which Dubai World Cup winner Invasor is 4-1 favourite to win the race for the second year running.


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