Dual classic winner DIVINE PROPORTIONS (Kingmambo),
whose nine-win, unbeaten streak came to an end when running fourth in the Prix
de Jacques le Marois (Fr-G1) at Deauville on August 14, has been retired.
“This news is very brutal for me as she’d never had a training problem and
was in brilliant form before the Marois,” trainer Pascal Bary told Racing Post.
“But I did suspect something might be amiss four or five days after she returned
to Chantilly.
“Since returning to my yard she has undergone extensive tests and the vets
have found tendon damage in her off foreleg.”
The sophomore was last year’s champion two-year-old filly in Europe and won
all five starts, including the Prix Marcel Boussac (Fr-G1) and Prix Morny
(Fr-G1), the latter against males.
Divine Proportions captured this year’s Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (French
One Thousand Guineas) (Fr-G1) as well as the Prix de Diane Hermes (French Oaks) (Fr-G1)
and Prix d’Astarte (Fr-G1).
The Kentucky-bred is out of the multiple stakes-winning Sadler’s Wells mare
Myth to Reality (Fr) and is a three-quarter sister to highweight and multiple
Group 1 winner Whipper (Miesque’s Son), who ran second in the Jacques le Marois
and won last year’s edition of the same race.