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Enbihaar Retired After Sustaining a Minor Injury

MGSW & G1SP Enbihaar (Ire) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}– Chanterelle {Fr}, by Trempolino) has been retired due to injury, Shadwell’s Racing Manager Angus Gold announced on Tuesday. The John Gosden trainee and 2019 English Highweighted Older Mare at 14 furlongs and above was pointing for this weekend’s G1 Qatar Prix de Royallieu.

“Enbihaar will miss the Royallieu as she is currently at Shadwell Stud,” said Gold of the €500,000 Arqana August yearling. “She had a minor injury, and as a result has been retired–very sadly. She’s been an absolute star, and I wish we had a few more like her–with her enthusiasm and ability.

“It was sad not to win a Group One. But she did very well to win what she did, and she was a real torch-bearer for us for the last few years. She was beautifully trained–I must say that. It’s very sad, but it was fantastic to keep her in training this year to win a couple more group races. She’s given us a lot of fun, and obviously we’ll give her a proper chance at stud.”

A winner of the G2 Lancashire Oaks, G2 Lillie Langtry S. and Doncaster’s G2 Park Hill S. as a sophomore, the Haras du Mezeray-bred ran third in the 2019 Prix de Royallieu. A rare returning 4-year-old in these colours, she duplicated a victory in the Lillie Langtry S. and, in her final start, won York’s G2 Lonsdale Cup on Aug. 21. She retires with a mark of 12-7-1-2 and $636,973 in earnings.

Her dam is a half-sister to Group 1 winner Amonita (GB) (Anabaa), and a full to MGSW Cox Orange (Trempolino), herself the dam of G1 1000 Guineas third Vista Bella (GB) (Diktat {GB}). Besides Enbhihaar, Chanterelle has also thrown GSP Silent Attack (GB) (Dream Ahead) and SP King Bolete (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}).

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Dr. Richard Bowman: Guardian Of Minnesota Racehorses

Prior to the intervention of Dr. Richard Bowman, the bulk of racehorses retiring from Minnesota racetracks were sent to slaughterhouses in Mexico or Canada, reports the Star Tribune.

A vet with the Minnesota Racing Commission, Bowman was first asked to help find a retiring racehorse a home in the late 1990s. Now, he gets asked for help several times each week. When he learned of how many horses needed assistance in finding homes when they could no longer race, he opened his 4,000-acre cattle ranch in North Dakota to Thoroughbred and Quarter Horses that are too injured, old, lame or slow to continue their careers as racehorses at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN.

At the ranch, which is nine hours from Canterbury Park, he focuses on rehabilitating and adopting out as many horses as he can (nearly 600 so far). The horses that are too unsound remain in his care at the ranch indefinitely—there are 35 such horses on the ranch currently. Now a 501(c)3 charity called Bowman Second Chance Thoroughbred Adoption, the program is famous for welcoming every horse in any condition, taking in the horses many others will not.

Each horse that enters Bowman's program is assessed for personality, temperament and ability. Once rehabilitated, the horses that are adoptable are paired with an adopter. Bowman's horses have been adopted out all over the United States; they do everything from hunters, jumpers, eventing, cattle work, polo ponies, dressage and other disciplines.

Bowman is one of three Minnesota Racing Commission veterinarians, along with Dr. Christy Klatt and Dr. Lynn Hovda. The trio are tasked with ensuring the horses racing at the state's tracks are sound and healthy to race; they also assist with rehoming nearly 60 racehorses each year.

Some of the horses are adopted directly from the track; those in need of temporary shelter go to Hovda's farm. Most of the horses head West to the Bowman ranch, where they settle into a less-pampered lifestyle before they are prepared for adoption. In addition to horses retiring from racing finding homes, the veterinarians team with Canterbury Park officials to pull two to three horses with ties to the state's tracks from kill pens each year. They are able to prevent these horses from being shipped to slaughterhouses outside the U.S.

Learn more about Bowman Second Chance Thoroughbred Adoption here.

Grade 1 Winner Green Gratto Finishes Last In Comeback Race, Will Be Retired

Grade 1-winning millionaire Green Gratto was returning to the races off a 16-month layoff on Sunday at Monmouth Park, but the 10-year-old gelding incurred a superficial wound on his right foreleg at the start and was eased to finish last in the field of seven. Trainer Kathleen O'Connell told the Daily Racing Form that Green Gratto's owners will take him back to their Florida farm for retirement.

“Other than that small mark, he's okay,” O'Connell told drf.com. “He jogs sound, but he is being retired and after resting a few days he is going back to his farm.”

Retired to stud in 2018, Green Gratto was found to be infertile and thus gelded. He had been entered for a comeback last fall at Gulfstream when a social media firestorm forced him to be withdrawn from that race.

Unraced since April of 2018, Green Gratto was under the care of trainer Tamara Levy when his first comeback attempt was spoiled. He returned to owner Norman Wilson's farm, where Wilson said the gelding became listless and unhappy, before he was sent to trainer Kathleen O'Connell in 2020.

Green Gratto recorded three workouts at Monmouth since late June, and shows works at Tampa Bay Downs as early as Feb. 8 of this year. The gelding was listed at 8-1 on the morning line for Sunday's six-furlong contest, which was a $20,000 optional claiming race restricted to New Jersey-breds.

Prior to his unsuccessful stallion career, Green Gratto amassed earnings of $1,149,202 with a record of nine wins, nine seconds, and nine thirds from 65 starts. His graded stakes victories include the G1 Carter in 2017, G3 Toboggan in 2017 and G3 Fall Heighweight in 2015.

Founder Of Our Mims Retirement Haven Dies

Jeanne Mirabito, founder and president of Our Mims Retirement Haven in Paris, KY, died of cancer on August 5, reports Blood-Horse.

Mirabito founded the farm in 2007 in honor of Our Mims, a Calumet-bred multiple graded stakes winner. Mirabito first saw the filly on television in 1977 in her home state of New York and became enamored with the horse. Years later, when Mirabito moved to Kentucky, she came across Our Mims living on the same farm on which she was renting a house.

The mare was turned out with cattle and had limited human interaction; Mirabito said the mare had had minimal veterinary and farrier care. Still in love with the horse, Mirabito adopted the mare and rehabilitated her. Mirabito began Our Mims Retirement Haven in honor of her champion mare, offering mares a place to retire and live out their days once their broodmare careers ended. Our Mims died from colic at 29 and was buried in Calumet's cemetery.

Details of a celebration of Mirabito's life are forthcoming.