Sunday Racing Company's Real Steel (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}-Loves Only Me, by Storm Cat), a winner of the 2016 G1 Dubai Turf at Meydan (video), has been retired due to an injury in his right foreleg, reported Sports Hochi on Tuesday. He will stand at Shadai Stallion Station in 2019.
A first out winner in his lone start at 2, it was his only time competing outside of group company in 17 total starts, with a Group 3 win on his resume in his first start at three. Runner-up in both the G1 Japanese 2000 Guineas and the G1 Japanese St Leger split by a fourth in the G1 Japanese Derby from his six appearances that year, Real Steel ran third in the G2 Nakayama Kinen in February of 2016 one start prior to his Meydan victory. Second in the G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn) that fall, he returned to the winner's circle second out at five in the G2 Mainichi Okan in an abbreviated campaign and was third in this year's G1 Dubai Turf. The Yoshito Yahagi trainee retires with a record of 17-4-5-2 and $7,508,769 in earnings.
Bred by Northern Farm, Real Steel comes from a top-class female family, as he counts dual GI Breeders' Cup Mile heroine Miesque (Nureyev) as his third dam. Out of the unraced Storm Cat mare Loves Only Me, he is a full-brother to Japanese SW & MGSP Prodigal Son (Jpn) and SP Langley (Jpn). Loves Only Me is a half to G3 Balanchine S. victress I Am Beautiful (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}) and European highweight and MG1SW Rumplestiltskin (Ire) (Danehill), herself already responsible for G1 Yorkshire Oaks scorer Tapestry (Ire) and Group 3 winner John F Kennedy (Ire), both to the cover of Galileo (Ire).
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