Subjectivist Done For Year After Injury

Two-time Group 1 winner Subjectivist (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}), who won the G1 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot last month, has sustained a leg injury that puts him out of action until at least next season. A Dr. Walker colourbearer, the 4-year-old entire was targeting the G1 Goodwood Cup on July 27. A winner of the G1 Prix Royal-Oak at ParisLongchamp in October, the bay continued his rich vein of form with a victory at Meydan in the G2 Dubai Gold Cup on Mar. 27 and was making his first start since in the Gold Cup. At this time, it is not known if Subjectivist will run again or be retired for stud duty.

Trainer Mark Johnston said, “He's got an injury and it's certainly season-ending. There was no secret that the horse had filling in his left foreleg in Dubai straight after the race [G2 Dubai Gold Cup] and we got a hell of a fright from that. Visually, that was a career-ending injury.

“Within 24 hours he'd got a reasonably clean bill of health and within a month he'd got a complete clean bill of health, which was very unusual for that type of situation. Everything went perfectly well and there were no issues going into the Ascot Gold Cup or afterwards.

“But on Monday he had filling in the opposite leg. Because the left foreleg had been so atypical and he'd come back from that, we hoped it would be the same with the other leg, but it didn't. It's absolutely heartbreaking. The only positive we can take from it is that at least he did get the opportunity to show us what he could do.

“Those of us that were there in Dubai thought that was a phenomenal performance and at least it was confirmed in what I like to think was one of the best Ascot Gold Cups in recent days. I don't know [if he'll run again].”

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Santiago Camp Eyeing Goodwood Cup

G1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby winner Santiago (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) could clash with three-times G1 Ascot Gold Cup hero Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) in next month’s G1 Qatar Goodwood Cup. Victorious in the 14-furlong G2 Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot, Santiago dropped back to a mile and a half at The Curragh just eight days later and fended off stablemate Tiger Moth (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) to take the Classic honours.

Aidan O’Brien’s charge is the ante-post favourite for the G1 St Leger at Doncaster in September, but the Ballydoyle handler has raised the possibility of taking on John Gosden’s star stayer Stradivarius over two miles first.

Stradivarius joined an elite band when making it a Gold Cup hat-trick at Royal Ascot and will be bidding for a fourth Goodwood Cup win, having landed his first title as a 3-year-old in 2017.

O’Brien said, “It could be straight to the St Leger, but we have it in our head he could go to Goodwood–we’ll just see how he is between now and then. We’ll give him a week before we have a good chat with the lads (Coolmore), so it will be straight to Doncaster or the two-mile race at Goodwood.

“It will depend on what the lads want, but we’ve always thought he was a horse who would stay very well and he showed that at Ascot. At The Curragh you have to stay very well as well. We had other horses in, so we knew it would be a test.”

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