TRAINER MICHAEL BELL has likened the loss of Sariska to retirement as like owning “a Ferrari but with no keys”.
Sariska refused to leave the docks for a second time in succession in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp yesterday, leading to her enforced retirement.
She had previously been installed as the 85-40 favourite at Yorkshire Oaks earlier this month, only to fail to move from the docks.
“There is nothing more we can do so that is the end of the road,” a sad Bell was quoted as saying of last season’s English and Irish Oaks winner. ”I’m proud of everything she has achieved but she does not want to play ball on the track.”
Bell had drafted in a psychologist to work with Sariska after her Yorkshire Oaks refusal, but but she ended up with the same fate as her sister Gull Wing, who was forced to retire after a refusal two years ago.
Sariska won five of her eleven starts in total, but on Sunday it was Midday who succeeded in France to win her fifth Group One.
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