Sea Of Class Done For The Year

[Wandering Eyes]

The day after Sea Of Class (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) finished a closing second in the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, trainer William Haggas revealed on Monday that the 3-year-old filly is done for the year with the view to staying in training at four and targeting Arc redemption.

“She won’t run again this season, she’s given her all and had a lot of hard racing – she’s done plenty,” he said. “I think if we were going to retire her we may have looked at another run, but we’re not going to. I think the plan is to keep her in training, so I think we’ll call it a day.”

In finishing second to defending winner Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), Sea Of Class was losing for the first time since a debut second on Apr. 18. In the interim, she has won four times: two listed races and two Group 1s.

“She’s come a long way in a short space of time,” Haggas said. “She didn’t win her listed race until May and she nearly won an Arc in October. She’s a pretty special filly. Hopefully she can go one better next year.”

Haggas gained redemption later on the Arc card with Lael Stable’s One Master (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) in the G1 Prix de la Foret, and the trainer said that 4-year-old filly may have one more run before possibly heading into retirement.

“The plan was to always keep her in training, but I don’t know now, I just need to sit down with the owners and discuss what we are going to do next,” he said. “The problem is that the only Group 1 over seven furlongs is the Foret and she’s won that and will have a Group 1 penalty in every race next year, bar the Maurice de Gheest. So we might look at a mile option before we put her to bed.”

“We might – just might – see if she gets a mile because she relaxed so well,” he added. “There’s lots of speed in her family, but I think it’s well worth giving her a shot over a mile.”

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