Charlie Appleby-trained Adayar retired to stud after form struggles

Charlie Appleby-trained Adayar retired to stud as Adam Kirby pays tribute to the horse that saying ‘he will always hold a special place in my heart’

  • Charlie Appleby-trained horse, Adayar, has been retired to stud after poor form
  • The horse won the 2021 Derby and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes 
  • Adam Kirby who rode him in the Derby expressed his gratitude to the horse

Adayar, the Charlie Appleby-trained 2021 Derby and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner, has been retired to stud.

Saturday’s King George had been on the five-year-old’s agenda until a below-par second to Israr in the Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket earlier this month.

Adayar, who was also fourth in the 2021 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, was restricted to two runs last season by a respiratory infection, winning a minor event at Doncaster before finishing second to Bay Bridge in the Champion Stakes.

He won the Group Three Gordon Richards Stakes on his first start this season but his three runs this year were well below his peak performances.

Adam Kirby, who rode Adayar to victory in the Derby, said: ‘He will always hold a special place in my heart as he gave me the biggest win of my career. He had a very high cruising speed and he could really quicken and keep lengthening, which takes a bit of doing.’

Adayar (middled) has been retired to stud after a season that has seen him struggle with his form

Adam Kirby (top-middle) won the 2021 Epsom Derby on the horse and expressed his gratitude to the 2021 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner

The horse was trained by Charlie Appleby (pictured) that year but has struggled with some below peak performance runs this season

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After Ar El Bee had finished fifth of six and Mystic Man had been pulled up at Uttoxeter, Sherwood, who has trained for 39 years, said: ‘I am not packing up, it is just a change of direction.’

Sherwood won the 2015 Grand National with Many Clouds.

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