Injured Canford retired to stud
The five-time Group One winner came off second best when meeting Frankel in the highly-anticipated ‘Duel on the Downs’ in the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood last week.
Connections have subsequently found the four-year-old to have suffered a minor injury but have decided to call time on his racing career for fear of the problem developing into something more serious.
“He has a bit of a shadow on the joint running into the pastern and that could turn into something nasty — it could turn into a fracture,” said Hannon.
Hannon added: “He’s a perfectly sound horse and I could very nearly go on training him, but under that light, I don’t want to do the horse any damage as he’s done us so proud.
“It’s a terrible shame — it’s heartbreaking, but I don’t want to see him end up with a bad injury.
“If we carried on, we would have to give him box rest and with a big horse like him, he’d just get bigger and bigger and heavier and heavier.”
