Top-class four-year-old Raging Torrent has been retired. Raging Torrent two-time Grade 1 winner of the Malibu Stakes and Metropolitan Mile Handicap along with this year’s Grade 2 Godolphin Mile, has been retired because of a suspensory injury to his left foreleg. Craig Dado, managing partner of Great Friends Stable, which co-owns the 4-year-old son of Maximus Mischief with Yuesheng Zhang’s Yulong Investments, confirmed the news on Mike Willman’s Thoroughbred Los Angeles radio show after it was first reported by Daily Racing Form Saturday night. 

Placed in graded stakes at 2, Raging Torrent won seven of 14 starts, with $1,797,400 earnings. He won six of his final seven starts, including two Grade 1 events that have proven to be stallion-making races, the Malibu at Santa Anita and the Met Mile, run the last two years at Saratoga while Belmont Park is being rebuilt.