Limato Retired From Racing

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Dual Group 1-winning sprinter Limato (Ire) (Tagula {Ire}) has been retired from racing and will be re-trained as a show horse by Katie Jerram. The news was first reported by Racing Post.

A £41,000 graduate of the Doncaster August yearling sale, Limato raced from ages two to eight for owner Paul Jacobs and trainer Henry Candy and won at least one stakes race every season. A dual listed winner at two, he won the G3 Pavilion S. and G2 Park S. at three and was second in Royal Ascot’s G1 Commonwealth Cup and the G1 Prix de la Foret. Limato had his best season at four, winning the G1 Darley July Cup before going one better in the Foret. He was placed in both the G1 Diamond Jubilee and July Cup at five before prevailing in the G2 Challenge S., and the following season strung together three straight black-type wins culminating in a Challenge title defense. Limato’s 7-year-old season last year brought about victory in the G3 Criterion S., and the dark bay gelding took that event once again on seasonal debut on June 27 before finishing fifth when last seen in the G2 Park S.

“He has been an incredible horse,” Jacobs told Racing Post. “He won 14 of his 33 races, he won two Group 1s, three Group 2s, three Group 3s and four listed races. He has been a horse of not just one lifetime but quite a few lifetimes, and the people involved with him have been spectacular as well.”

Limato had been on-track to make his final start in Friday’s renewal of the Challenge at Newmarket.

“Friday’s Challenge S. was always going to be his swansong but on Monday he pulled out slightly lame,” Jacobs revealed. “It would have been so tight to get him to Newmarket and the ground is soft there anyway, so we brought forward his retirement.”

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