Australian Horse of the Year, Typhoon Tracy, retires
The Australian Racehorse of the Year, Typhoon Tracy, has finally been retired.
The brilliant career of Typhoon Tracy came to a respectable end when trainer Peter Moody declared the champion mare to have shown her connections and fans, the peak of her talent, by giving the best display of her competency in racing with an exhausting sixth Group 1 win in last Saturday’s CF Orr Stakes, which was held over a distance of seven furlongs at the racecourse in Caulfield.
By winning the Orr Stakes the previous year, as well as this one, Typhoon Tracy is now counted among the few who have won the Orr Stakes multiple times. Vo Rogue, Manikato and Lord are the only other racehorses to hold this prestige to their respective names.
The day the race ended and the mare was escorted back to her stable, Typhoon Tracy’s proud and gleeful owners celebrated the victory and cheered for her, oblivious to the extent of the seasoned racehorse’s exhaustion.
Moody talked to reporters on Tuesday about the mare’s retirement and said that Typhoon Tracy has given all she had in the race on Saturday and although seventy two hours have ticked by, she shows no sign of complete recovery from the exertion of the Orr Stakes.
The trainer informed reporters that the horse is healthy and has suffered no injuries but it is apparent that the time for her retirement has come, although the horse is still only five years old, after she bagged eleven out of her twenty scheduled starts and managed to attain positions in five other fixtures that she took part in for career earnings of 2,438,600 Australian dollars.
Typhoon Tracy was born to Red Ransom and Tracy’s Element and raced only twice at Listed or Group level. Her first Group 1 win was the 2009 Coolmore Classic at Rosehill.
The last season was very kind to her, giving her Group 1 wins in the 2009 Myer Classic at Flemington, the Orr Stakes and Futurity Stakes at Caulfield and Queen Of The Turf Stakes (Rosehill) all in 2010.
Trainer Moody also said that although Typhoon Tracy could still have run at the Brisbane winter carnival, he believed that she had been a wonderful horse and had achieved enough as it is and that he and her owners are is immensely proud of her.
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