ARO - NATURE STRIP RETIRED

Recent Meetings

TURFFONTEIN - INSIDE - 16 Aug 2026
Races at TURFFONTEIN - INSIDE - 16 Aug 2026
- MR 66 HANDICAP over 1200m, RAN 53,438 ICONIC WINTER (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.2 length(s) in 73.55 secs...
- MR 74 APRRENTICE HANDICAP over 1800m, RAN 59,375 SPIRIT OF GABZ (SAF) 2023, wins by 0.2 length(s) in 113.02 secs...
- NOVICE HANDICAP over 1450m, RAN 59,375 ZIP CODE (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.6 length(s) in 89.29 secs...
- MR 80 APPRENTICE HANDICAP over 1200m, RAN 68,281 SET TO MUSIC (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.5 length(s) in 72.38 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE (3 year-old Fillies) over 1200m, RAN 65,312 ELUSIVE DRAGON (SAF) 2023, wins by 0.7 length(s) in 73.91 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE (3-YEAR-OLDS) over 1200m, RAN 68,281 RECKLESS ABANDON (SAF) 2023, wins by 2 length(s) in 73.66 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE over 1200m, RAN 68,281 CAMILLO CAVOUR (SAF) 2023, wins by 1 length(s) in 73.96 secs...
- MIDDLE STAKES over 1600m, RAN 80,156 REECE'S WISH (SAF) 2022, wins by 5 length(s) in 97.64 secs...

NATURE STRIP RETIRED

04 Sep 2023 11:20

An era has ended with Chris Waller announcing the retirement of champion sprinter Nature Strip.

The decision was made almost immediately after the nine-year-old finished down the track in the Concorde Stakes (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday with Waller convening a spontaneous press conference to confirm the news.

Standing alongside Nature Strip’s majority owner Rod Lyons, Waller paid tribute to a grand horse who at his best was almost unbeatable over sprint journeys winning three TJ Smith Stakes (2021-21-22), the 2021 The Everest and giving the top trainer his first Royal Ascot win in last year’s Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes.
Nature Strip retires as the winner of 22 of his 44 starts along with nine minor placings and more than $20.7 million in prizemoney.

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