Brave Rathgar retired

Rathgar Beau, winner of the Champion Chase at the 2005 Punchestown Festival, has been retired by trainer Dusty Sheehy after the recurrence of a tendon problem.

The 12-year-old missed all of 2007 with the injury, which has reared its head following the veteran’s latest run when he was pulled up on a trip across the Irish sea to Huntingdon.