NEW APPROACH (Galileo [Ire]) will
retire to
Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, Darley announced Sunday. A fee has yet to be
decided for
the five-time Group 1 winner, who capped a sterling career with a six-length
success in Saturday’s Champion S. (Eng-G1) at Newmarket. That was also the scene
of his victory in last year’s
Dewhurst S. (Eng-G1), a victory that followed wins in the Tyros S. (Ire-G3), Futurity S.
(Ire-G2) and
National
S. (Ire-G1).
Runner-up in both the English (Eng-G1) and Irish (Ire-G1) Two Thousand Guineas in May, the chestnut
son of dual
champion Park Express (Ire) (Ahonoora) returned to his winning ways in the Epsom Derby
(Eng-G1) the
following month
before being pulled out of the Irish equivalent at the 11th hour through injury.
Third in his
return in the International (Eng-G1) staged at Newmarket in August, he
carried Princess
Haya of Jordan’s green silks to success again in last month’s Irish Champion
S. (Ire-G1) at
Leopardstown before his rousing finale.
In winning Newmarket’s Champion in track-record
time, he
became the only horse in the last 100 years to follow up in that contest after
winning the
Dewhurst and Derby. Following that performance, trainer Jim Bolger paid tribute.
“He is the
finest horse I have trained,” he said. “To win a Group 1 race and still have
something in the
tank is just unbelievable. I am very lucky to have had a horse like him pass
through my hands.
It was a huge day when we went to Epsom — to have kept everything together that
day was a
great achievement.”
“It was a dream come true to
win the
Derby, and everybody who has had anything to do with New Approach has been part
of that
dream,” Princess Haya of Jordan added. “Jim (Bolger) and all his team, the whole Bolger family and the stables,
they have all
been wonderful to us throughout. It is people who really make it special along
the way.”
New
Approach joins fellow National and Dewhurst winner and juvenile champion
Teofilo under the Darley banner, and retires as the winner
of eight of his 11
starts.