Retirements.....

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

From DRF.....

Certifiably Crazy retired

Certifiably Crazy, the two-time New York-bred male turf champion, has been retired due to a recurring problem with the stifle in his right foreleg, trainer Rick Schosberg said Wednesday.

A 7-year-old gelded son of Fit to Fight, Certifiably Crazy posted a record of 8 wins, 12 seconds, and 3 thirds from 30 career starts. He debuted in August 2003, winning a $12,500 maiden claiming event at Calder by 8 3/4 lengths.

Later that year, he finished second in the Grade 3 Calder Derby, one of three graded events in which Certifiably Crazy finished second. He was beaten a nose in the 2004 Red Smith at Aqueduct and a head in the 2005 Knickerbocker Handicap.

In 2006, Certifiably Crazy won three restricted stakes, including the West Point at Saratoga and the Mohawk at Belmont. Certifiably Crazy was entered for the Kingston here last month but scratched due to the stifle issue.

"We found instability in that stifle joint and concluded it looks like a torn ligament that would take quite a long time to heal,'' Schosberg said. "We decided he had done more than enough and it was time to call it a career.''

Schosberg, who trained Certifiably Crazy for Joseph Sweedler's Double S Stable, said Certifiably Crazy would be retired to the Wallkill facility of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation in upstate New York.
http://www.drf.com/news/article/85762.html

He had a stifle problem in his right foreleg?

[sumitas]

my handy chart shows the stifle in the rear legs in what would be the knee in humans i guess. the joint is high on the rear legs.

http://extension.missouri.edu/explor...sci/g02837.htm

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by sumitas

my handy chart shows the stifle in the rear legs in what would be the knee in humans i guess. the joint is high on the rear legs.

http://extension.missouri.edu/explor...sci/g02837.htm

That's why it was funny to me that they said that his stifle joint in his right foreleg was injured.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

He had a stifle problem in his right foreleg?

no wonder they retired him!!!

[my miss storm cat]

Helene Elegance..... nine-year-old quasi-icon of Hong Kong.

Happy retirement, good boy!

[my miss storm cat]

Day Flight... injured at Goodwood.

Saturn, HK warrior.

Milky Way Guy - a Suffolk Downs favorite due to a slight injury at age 9.

[my miss storm cat]

Gee I Jane, and sad news from a UAE press release.

Australia’s Dubai star Benedetti suffers career ending injury
(no author listed)

Australia’s star of the 2007 Dubai International Racing Carnival, Benedetti, has been retired after suffering a serious injury in the spelling paddock.

Spelling after his brilliant third in the Group 1 Strabroke Handicap in early June, Benedetti fractured two splint bones.

His trainer, Tony Noonan, told nzracingnews.co.nz that the five-year-old’s racetrack career is definitely over and he is awaiting a decision by vets on the x-rays to see if the smart sprinter can be saved.

Benedetti was the first horse from Australia to race in Dubai outside of the Dubai World Cup mneeting and he impressed all winning his first two starts before his fifth to Kapil in the Listed Zabeel Mile.

[my miss storm cat]

Godolphin press release.....


LEADING SPRINTER SONSTER RETIRES TO DARLEY
06 August 2007


The hugely-impressive Grade Two winner Songster has been retired and will join the Darley stallion roster for the 2008 season. The black Godolphin four-year-old was among the USA's most exciting sprinters following two clear-cut and fast-time victories in Graded Stakes at three and an impressive win in his only start this year. A fee for Songster will be set at a later date.

Only once out of the exacta in eight career starts, Songster showed his brilliance early on in his sophomore season winning impressively at seven furlongs on his debut at Gulfstream. Later that year, he led at every call to win the six furlong G3 Hirsch Jacobs at Pimlico – geared down but by ten lengths, in 1:09.72. Next time out, back at seven furlongs, he came from off the pace to defeat Too Much Bling by two lengths in the G2 Woody Stephens Breeders' Cup at Belmont. His time: 1:21.45. He returned in the G3 Bold Ruler at Belmont, taking it under a hand ride by two-and-a-half lengths in 1:08.9. Mike Watchmaker, of the Daily Racing Form, listed Songster at the top of his weekly divisional ratings for sprinters, but injury has denied the colt a favorite's shot at the fall's championship sprints.

A son of Songandaprayer, Songster's pedigree combines two of the leading speed influences of the day in Unbridled's Song and French Deputy. A Florida bred from the family of G1 sire Slewpy, he sold for US$200,000 as a yearling. Charlie Boden, Darley's nominations manager said, 'It's disappointing Songster won't be able to challenge for championship honors, but he's a really exciting stallion prospect. He's great looking, a natural athlete, with top class form and commercial bloodlines. It will be a thrill to welcome him to Darley.'