Overview
- Cheveley Park announced on Friday that Estrange has been retired from racing and will join the stud’s broodmare band next year.
- The decision followed a race injury described by connections as bone bruising and a very dry summer that together prevented timely rehabilitation.
- Estrange won six of nine starts for trainer David O’Meara, including this year’s Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh and earlier Group 2 and Group 3 victories.
- Cheveley Park thanked owner Patricia Thompson, her son Richard and O’Meara’s team, and said specific mating plans for Estrange have not yet been finalised.
- Her retirement ends plans for an autumn programme that had targeted the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and secures her value as a Group 1-winning broodmare for future breeding decisions.