High-class filly Zarigana, who was awarded this year's Poule d'Essai des Pouliches in the stewards' room after suffering interference from the first past the post, Shes Perfect (Sioux Nation), has been retired from racing.
Speaking from Hong Kong, trainer Francis-Henri Graffard told Sky Sports Racing, “She [Zarigana] is retired now. She has been a complicated filly and she has been very frustrating this season. I think she was so talented, but difficult and tricky. She could have won four Group 1s and only managed to win one in the stewards' room. She has been a frustrating filly this year and we've had hard days with her.”
The Aga Khan Studs homebred heads to the paddocks as the winner of four of her seven starts for the Graffard stable. In addition to her controversial success at ParisLongchamp in May, the daughter of Siyouni filled the runner-up spot at the top level on three other occasions. Beaten just a nose by stablemate Vertical Blue (Mehmas) in last year's Prix Marcel Boussac, she later followed her Classic victory with near-misses in both the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and Prix de la Foret back at ParisLongchamp.
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