Kyprios retired: Aidan O’Brien calls time on twin Gold Cup hero’s profession after aggravation of previous damage | Racing Information

Aidan O’Brien’s twin Ascot Gold Cup winner Kyprios has been retired because of aggravating an previous damage.

The seven-year-old son of Galileo leaves the observe with an unimaginable file of 17 wins from 21 outings.

What makes his achievements all of the extra meritorious are that after an excellent season in 2022 when he received all six of his races, together with a primary Gold Cup, he then missed nearly the entire of 2023.

He did return for an autumn marketing campaign and met with two defeats, however final yr he was higher than ever when profitable all seven begins, together with a second Gold Cup.

Asserting the information on X, his house owners Coolmore stated: “On account of an aggravation of an previous ringbone lesion now we have determined to take no possibilities with Kyprios and though he’s presently sound and doing effectively the choice has been made to retire him from racing.”

Kyprios had been completely sound till his most up-to-date outing within the Saval Beg at Leopardstown, when O’Brien reported he had taken a few lame steps.

By the next morning the Ballydoyle handler was in a position to difficulty a optimistic replace however given what he means to these round him, the choice was taken with the horse’s greatest pursuits at coronary heart.

“He is been an unbelievable horse actually,” O’Brien instructed the PA information company. “We needed to be very respectful of him. In each manner he’s excellent however simply when he pulled up a little bit bit edgy the final day we could not take any dangers.

“It was the primary time he’d taken a false step since he recovered from his severe damage. Everybody simply needed to do proper by him.

“He is been essentially the most unimaginable horse, he had an unimaginable thoughts to go along with his unimaginable capability.

“I do not suppose every other horse on the earth would have come again from the damage that he had.”

Many particular moments have graced the profession of Kyprios, however one race on his file significantly stands out for O’Brien – the extraordinary Prix du Cadran of 2022, when he received by 20 lengths regardless of hanging violently to his left inside the ultimate furlong.

He stated: “There was that day in France when he received by a good distance. He was simply galloping dwelling actually!

“He’d been spherical as soon as, he may see the place he wanted to go and he simply needed to get again. He was an unimaginable horse, he was simply at all times in second gear more often than not.

“That was simply uncommon that Prix du Cadran, all of them fell away, nothing may go together with him and he obtained left in entrance and obtained a bit lonely.”