HARZAND RETIRED: Dual Derby winner Harzand has been retired to stud. Dermot Weld’s colt won four of his seven races including the Epsom and Curragh classics.
A quiet start to the racing week in Ireland – we need to wait until Dundalk on Wednesday evening.
A profitable week with the naps last week with four winning naps from seven:
Mon: HE’S ROCK (NAP) WON 9/4
Wed: VIGIL (NAP) WON 7/4
Thu: DE PLOTTING SHED (NAP) WON 13/8
Fri: LONDON (NAP) WON 7/4
New today that the dual Derby winner Harzand has been retired and will stand at the Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud in 2017.
His form tailed off after the Derby successes with defeats in the Irish Champion Stakes (suffered injury) and a ninth place in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Weld told At The Races: “He’s been a wonderful horse to train. I’ve enjoyed training him. He’s won two Derbies for us. He’s a beautifully-made colt, very sound.
“It’s been a team effort. It hasn’t been the easiest – when he spread the plate before Epsom it was nerve-racking – but it was his guts and courage that won the day.
“He then went on antibiotics as he picked up an infection after Epsom, but he came back stronger than ever to win the Irish Derby.
“He had a long year, a hard year. People forget he won his maiden by 16 lengths in March and then the Ballysax in April.”
“He has done everybody proud and it’s been an honour to train him.”
HARZAND: 13/2 WINNING NAP FOR SHAMROCK
SHAMROCK NAPPED HARZAND when he won the Epsom Derby at a rewarding 13/2 (final three furlongs below)
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