Shadwell's record-breaking MG1SW sprinter Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), who broke Dayjur's stakes record in the G1 Coolmore Nunthorpe S. at York on Aug. 23, is done for the year and will skip a potential engagement at the Breeders' Cup in November, Racing Post reported. Favoured in the Oct. 6 G1 Qatar Prix de l'Abbaye, he ran a puzzling 14th, with subsequent tests revealing nothing was amiss with the bay.
“He's not going-he's gone on his holidays instead,” said trainer Charlie Hills to Racing Post. “It's a bit of a shame but it's very hard to go there off the back of how he ran. Hopefully there will be another year. He's come out of it really fresh. We gave him a good look over and couldn't find anything wrong with him, so I just think it had to be the ground. I don't think the draw helped very much either. We'll freshen him up over the winter and we'll bring him back in the spring. I'd have thought he'll have a similar campaign– it's pretty set in stone now.”
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