Racing fans won’t see Carlton House running around race track’s this spring. The horse, still at the top of its game, has been retired to stud.
The shock decision to retire the favourite of the Cox Plate was announced early on Monday morning, with Queen’s horse set to stand at Darley’s NSW stud for the upcoming breeding season.
Gai Waterhouse had been attempting to get Carlton House back to full strength in an attempt to claim the horse’s maiden victory inside Australia, where the horse had shown plenty of promise being defeated in the last stride of the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes and a close third in the $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes, NSW’s richest race.
There were the rumours however that Carlton House would not turn to track and Darley Australia confirmed the rumours this morning.
With the decision to retire the Street Cry stallion a move to protect the bloodline of the great champion.
“Carlton House is such a magnificent and correct individual,” the Queen’s bloodstock and racing advisor John Warren said.
“He is by one of the most important stallions [Street Cry] in the world. Carlton House proved he was high class from the moment he won his two-year-old maiden at Newbury by nine lengths and he was rated up there with the very best.”
For those who want a piece of the action he will stand at Kelvinside for a fee of $16,500 plus GST.
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