Falbrav Pensioned

Globetrotting Group 1 winner Falbrav (Ire) (Fairy King–Gift of the Night, by Slewpy) has been pensioned from stud duty at Shadai Farm in Japan, according to Racing Post. The 17-year-old reportedly covered just four mares last year due to poor health. 
Trained and raced in Italy until the middle of his 4-year-old campaign, Falbrav won back-to-back Italian Group 1s in the summer of 2002 and ventured to France for two outings later that year–a third in the G2 Prix Foy and a ninth in the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. He pulled off a shock victory in the G1 Japan Cup that November, defeating Sarafan (Lear Fan) and Symboli Kris S (Kris S), after which Shadai’s Teruya Yoshida bought into him. Falbrav was transferred to trainer Luca Cumani for a busy 5-year-old campaign that saw him win the G1 Prix d’Ispahan, G1 Coral-Eclipse, G1 Juddmonte International, G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. and G1 Hong Kong Cup. He was also third, beaten a head, to High Chaparral (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) and Johar (Gone West) in that year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Turf. 
Falbrav failed to make the same mark as a sire. He produced 17 black-type winners and 11 graded winners, including the G2 Summer Mile victor Fanunalter (GB); Australian Group 2 winners Fravashi (Aus) and Brava Fortuna (Aus); and Japanese Group 2 winner A Shin Virgo (Jpn).