Cosmos misses Canadian date

John Gosden has today been forced to pull the plug on Arctic Cosmos’ bid for the Canadian International at Woodbine on Saturday and the St Leger winner will not run again this season.

The three-year-old suffered a cannon bone injury when working on Saturday morning and was taken to the Equine Hospital in Newmarket for surgery.

The operation was successful and connections have every hope he will return to action next season.

“The operation went well and by all accounts he is recovering well at the hospital and hopefully he’ll be back again next year,” said Gosden’s jockey William Buick, who rode him at Doncaster.

“It was a very important win for me because it was my first English Group One and my first Classic.

“He’s always been a good horse but he was very immature and babyish but he was third in the Gordon Stakes and that made a man of him at Goodwood.

“He was ready for the step up in the Leger and he won it well,” he told At The Races.