Last year's G1 Irish and Yorkshire Oaks winner and G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe runner-up Sea of Class (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) has had her career cut short by a bout of colic which required surgery on Wednesday, trainer William Haggas reported on Sunday morning.
“It's devastating news,” Haggas said. “She had surgery on Wednesday and is under intensive care. If she was a human you would say she was critical but stable, that's how it is, there's nothing more I can add really. You just have to take each day as it comes.
“There is no question that her racing career is over, 100%.”
Bred by Razza Del Velino and raced, like her sire, by Sunderland Holdings, Sea of Class stamped herself the best middle-distance 3-year-old filly in Europe last year with a pair of Oaks wins and ran Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) to a half-length from an unfortunate draw in the Arc. Sea of Class had had one start this year en route to a second Arc attempt, when fifth over unsuitably soft ground in Royal Ascot's G1 Prince of Wales's S.
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