Bucanero Fuerte Heads To Winter Quarters With The Guineas In Mind

Group 1 winner Bucanero Fuerte (GB) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) will not race again this season and be trained with an eye to either the G1 2000 Guineas or the Irish equivalent, according to trainer Adrian Murray.

A winner of the G1 Phoenix S. in fine style earlier in the year, the colt was unplaced in the G1 National S. during the Irish Champions Festival. He also claimed the G2 Railway S. at the Curragh in the colours of AMO Racing and Giselle De Aguiar.

“Nothing came to light, it just looked to me like it was a race too many for him,” said Murray of his charge's National performance. “He's on a break now, he won't run again until next year. I've given him an entry in the Irish Guineas and he'll also get entered in the English Guineas. Hopefully he'll have a prep run before going for one of those.

“He's had five races now so he's got plenty of experience at two if we're thinking of a Guineas. That's the plan anyway.”

Murray also shed light on the plans for his G2 Norfolk S. surprise winner Valiant Force (Malibu Moon), who is bound for the Breeders' Cup in California next month. The colt was a late scratch due to the ground prior to the G2 Flying Childers S. on Friday.

“Valiant Force is going to go straight to the Breeders' Cup,” said Murray. “The plan for him is for him to then stay in America after that.

“I'm not sure yet which race he'll run in over there, I'll have to talk to Kia [Joorabchian, owner], he'll have a few options.”

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Dual Guineas Hero Cockney Rebel Passes at 17

English and Irish 2000 Guineas hero Cockney Rebel (Ire) (Val Royal {Fr}-Factice, by Known Fact) passed away on Tuesday afternoon, owner Phil Cunningham announced on Twitter. He was 17.

“It is with great sadness that I advise the death of Cockney rebel this afternoon,” Cunningham tweeted. “He gave myself, my family and all of those connected with him such great memories that I could only have ever dreamed of. The horse of a lifetime, you changed my life.”

Bred by Oak Lodge Bloodstock, the March-foaled bay was a 14,286gns weanling at Tattersalls November before bringing £30,000 as a Doncaster September yearling. Put into training with Geoff Huffer, he broke his maiden at first asking in July of his juvenile year and ran second at York later that summer. Cockney Rebel signed off his 2-year-old year with a third in the G2 Champagne S., but resumed in 2007 with a victory in the G1 2000 Guineas. After winning the Irish equivalent later in May, his final start was a fifth in the G1 St James's Palace S. at Royal Ascot. He was retired with a mark of 6-3-1-1 and $885,544 in earnings.

Standing at the National Stud from 2008 to 2013, he moved to Haras de Saint Arnoult in France for two seasons in 2014/15 and then Haras du Thenney from 2016-2018. He returned to Great Britain in 2019 to stand at Batsford Stud and stood for £1,000 there this season. His best runner was G3 Fred Darling S. hero Redstart (GB), while he also sired French listed winner Monette (Fr), who was third in the GIII Matron S. Stateside.

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