Last year’s Eclipse champion turf female, Golden Apples has been retired due a suspensory injury in her left front leg. The daughter of leading sire Pivotal will be entered in Keeneland’s November Bloodstock Sale. 

A half sister to Park Hill Stakes winner Alexander Three D, Golden Apples won 6 of 16 starts. She won her first Grade 1 as a long shot in the Del Mar Oaks at three. Since then Ben Cecil trained the filly who won the Beverly D Stakes and Yellow Ribbon Stakes as well as running second in last year’s Matriarch Stakes and fourth in the Breeders Cup Fillies and Mares Turf. 

Her last start was a triple dead heat for second in the Mabee Handicap behind another Pivotal filly, Megahertz. The mare is currently owned by Gary Tanaka. 

Another top class horse who has been retired in 2001 is St Leger hero, Milan. The son of Sadler’s Wells was injured following his four year old debut in the Mooresbridge Stakes.

Trained by Aiden O’Brien, the colt followed up his St Leger win with a fifth in Sakhee’s Arc and a game, flying finish to Fantastic Light in the Breeders Cup Turf. Milan also won the Great Voltigeur as well as finishing an unlucky fifth in the French Derby.

Out of multiple group winner Kithanga, Milan, from the family of successful sire Kahyasi, will stand at Coolmore alongside his sire.