Liberty Beach ruled out of Cheveley Park Stakes after suffering setback

High-class filly Liberty Beach has been denied the chance to avenge her York defeat in Saturday’s Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket.

Trainer John Quinn had been looking forward to giving the two-year-old another crack at her Lowther Stakes conqueror Living In The Past in the Group 1 test, but a setback has forced him to scratch the Molecomb Stakes winner and look to 2020 instead.

“She won’t run in the Cheveley Park and she’s finished for the year,” the trainer said on Sunday. “She worked very well on Wednesday, we were very pleased with her, then she was stiff behind on Thursday.

“She’s pulled some muscles in her hind quarters. She needs an easy three weeks and we haven’t got three weeks. This was the only race we had in mind for her.

Liberty Beach: been a star for trainer John Quinn this yearCredit: Alan Crowhurst

"That's the way it goes but it's not serious and there is next year for her."

Liberty Beach, who is by multiple winning sprinter Cable Bay out of a dam who won over five furlongs, has yet to race over further than six furlongs, but Quinn is keen to test her stamina next spring with a view to a possible crack at the Qipco 1,000 Guineas.

"We'll put her away and bring her back to run in the Nell Gwyn and take it from there," he said. "If she stays she stays, if she doesn't we can revert to shorter trips."

Quinn also revealed last season's smart juvenile Signora Cabello has been retired after finishing down the field in a Listed event at Ayr on Friday.

She won the Queen Mary Stakes and Prix Robert Papin in 2018, and her trainer said: "She was a phenomenal two-year-old and she's going to the breeding sheds, where I'm sure she will breed a very good two-year-old."

Signora Cabello, a 20,000gns yearling who was bought for 900,000gns by Phoenix Thoroughbreds last winter, won four of her 11 races and earned £236,170 in prize-money.

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