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It was a chaotic Sunday at the Curragh. First, the bombshells that a pair of our most prized possessions, winners of six Group 1s between them, were retiring, then a first top-tier triumph for two gentlemen of the game. Emotions ranged from one extreme to the other in a matter of minutes.

At 3.05pm the Racing Post tweeted that Saxon Warrior had been retired after he was found to have a significant core lesion to a flexor tendon, sustained in the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

What a shame. We were dying to see him back over a mile in the QEII.

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Published on 16 September 2018inReports

Last updated 17:32, 17 September 2018

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