'Heartbreak' Blow For Tony Martin

The Tony Martin trained Heartbreak City (Fr) (Lando {Ger}) has broken a leg in training and has had to be put down. The 7-year-old gelding will be best remembered for his agonizingly close defeat by Almandin (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) in the 2016 G1 Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington. Part owned by an enthusiastic group of New York based Irish friends and Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock, Heartbreak City also landed a famous victory in the valuable Ebor H. at York last August that lead to scenes of raucous celebration in the winners enclosure afterwards. Originally trained in France by Stephane Wattel Heartbreak City won six of his 25 starts for prize-money of just over £700,000. “It's very sad,” Tony Martin said. “He was having a gallop ahead of running on the flat next week at the Curragh and unfortunately broke a leg. He took us to so many places and the plan this season was to go back out to Melbourne and have another whack. He did everyone proud and was more than a horse, he was some character and so genuine.”