SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2016 >HEART= HEADS WEST MSHAWISH RETIRED The speedy Heart to Heart (English Channel) will be the one to TO TAYLOR MADE catch in Saturday=s GI Shoemaker Mile S. at Santa Anita, a >Win and You=re In= contest for the GI Breeders= Cup Mile. He rattled off three straight front-running wins, including Gulfstream=s GIII Canadian Turf S. Feb. 27 over subsequent GI Woodford Reserve Turf Classic S. winner Divisidero (Kitten=s Joy), before finishing a good second behind the Royal Ascot- bound Miss Temple City (Temple City) in the GI Maker=s 46 Mile at Keeneland last time Apr. 15. The Terry Hamilton colorbearer tired to finish fourth in his previous trip to California in the 2014 GII Mathis Brothers Mile. AWe=re really happy with him going into the race,@ trainer Brian Lynch told TDN=s Ben Massam earlier this week. AHopefully, he takes his A-game out there, and if he does, I think he=ll be very tough.@ Cont. p4 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Mshawish winning the Donn H. | Leslie Martin MINDING BRILLIANT IN OAKS VICTORY Al Shaqab Racing=s Mshawish (Medaglia d=Oro--Thunder Minding (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) overcame adversity to win the Bayou, by Thunder Gulch), a Grade I winner on turf and dirt, has G1 Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday and record a British been retired from racing after being diagnosed with a minor Classic double. suspensory injury Friday morning. After consulting with Dr. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. Duncan Moir, it was determined that the 6-year-old would be forced to miss the rest of his major objectives for 2016 and the decision was taken by the Al Shaqab team to call it a career. Mshawish was an intended runner for next Saturday=s GI Metropolitan H. and was to breeze for the race Friday morning. He will enter stud in 2017 at Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Kentucky. AAlthough it=s sad to miss the Met Mile next Saturday and to not finish out the rest of 2016, it=s hard to do anything but smile looking back at Mshawish's long career,@ said Bradley Weisbord, U.S. advisor to Al Shaqab Racing. AHe was as consistent an elite racehorse that there is.@ Bred in Kentucky by OTIF 2007, Mshawish, a two-time Keeneland sales graduate, was knocked down to Nicolas de Watrigant=s Mandore International Agency for i170,000 at the 2012 Arqana May Breeze-Up, the third-highest price of the sale. Trained initially by Mikel Delzangles, the bay was close fourth to Dawn Approach (Ire) in the 2013 G1 St James=s Palace S., then earned his first black-type success in the Listed Prix de Tourgeville in his next appearance. Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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He capped a three-race winning skein with a nose tally in the GI Gulfstream Park Turf H. ahead of a third to top-class Solow (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) in his second crack at the Dubai Turf last March. Connections had long toyed with the idea of trying the dirt- bred Mshawish on the main track and, in just his second try over the surface, he proved a game winner of the GIII Hal=s Hope S. at Gulfstream Park. A 9-2 chance in that venue=s GI Donn H., Mshawish was angled out entering the stretch and ran out a two-length winner. Having recorded triple-digit Beyers in each of his final seven starts in North America, Mshawish retires with eight wins--seven black-type--from 24 starts and earnings of $2,421,351, making him the most accomplished of his sire=s offspring to enter stud. AIt=s extremely unfortunate because he had been training so well up to next Saturday=s Met Mile, and the entire team was very confident and looking forward to a big second-half of the year,@ said Ben Taylor, Vice President of Taylor Made Stallions. AThe positive is that Mshawish is an exciting stallion prospect that=s had a tremendous racing career, which he was able to take to another level when he switched to the dirt. The injury is a relatively minor one that he=ll get over, and if he were a 3-year-old, you wouldn=t even hesitate about bringing him back. We really look forward to standing Mshawish and introducing him to breeders. Medaglia d=Oro is one of the top stallions in the world, and Mshawish is his most accomplished son, with fast Grade 1 wins on both dirt and turf.@ Cont. p4 Mshawish in Dubai | Sherackatthetrack TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 4, 2016 Mshawish Retired cont. Saturday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 7:30 p.m. EDT SHOEMAKER MILE S.-GI, $400,000, 3yo/up, 1mT Said Pletcher, AMshawish has always impressed me with his PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML versatility, high-cruising speed and neat ability to also have an 1 Heart to Heart English Channel Leparoux Lynch 9-5 exciting turn of foot. He was top-class on both surfaces, and 2 Twentytwentyvision Pollard's Vision Prat Mandella 7-2 showed up every time we led him over there. It's a shame he's 3 Tourist Tiznow Lezcano Mott 5-2 4 Home Run Kitten Kitten's Joy Talamo Hofmans 5-1 going to miss the Met Mile, as that race would have suited him 5 Cape Wolfe (GB) Piccolo (GB) Smith D'Amato 12-1 perfectly. He was a fun one to train, one that the stable will 6 Midnight Storm K Pioneerof the Nile Bejarano D'Amato 4-1 really miss. I look forward to training his babies a few years Owners: 1-Terry Hamilton, 2-Ellen & Peter O. Johnson, Sr., 3-Barber or down the road.@ Wachtel Stable or WinStar Farm, LLC, 4-Tarabilla Farms, Inc., 5-Sterling Added Weisbord, AHe is an incredibly special horse for the Stables LLC, Ellis or Gorman Et Al, 6-A Venneri Racing, Inc. and Little Red entire Al Shaqab team, and really helped us get the U.S. Feather Racing. Breeders: 1-Red Hawk Ranch, 2-Peter O. Johnson, operation off the ground. I am looking forward to seeing him 3-WinStar Farm, LLC, 4-Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, 5-Fernham pass that top-class grittiness and consistency onto his progeny, Farm Ltd, 6-Alex Venneri & Marjorie Post Dye. and having quite a few run in the Al Shaqab colors. We will undoubtedly support him heavily.@ Mshawish descends from the female family of the talented Lu FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI VANITY MILE Ravi (A.P. Indy), whose half-sister Half Queen (Deputy Minister) produced champion Halfbridled (Unbridled). Shoemaker Mile CHAMPIONS SQUARE OFF IN VANITY Twentytwentyvision (Pollard=s Vision), runner-up in last Three-time champion and nine-time Grade I victress Beholder summer=s GI Eddie Read S. at Del Mar, followed a rallying (Henny Hughes) will put her seven-race winning streak on the second in the GIII Thunder Road S. Apr. 9 with a third-place line in Saturday=s new-look GI Vanity Mile S.