Smart sprinter Acapulco (Scat Daddy), who won the May 14 Listed Sole Power Sprint S. while in foal to Galileo (Ire), could be retired after missing Royal Ascot with a setback, trainer Aidan O'Brien told the Irish Independent. The 4-year-old won the 2015 G2 Queen Mary S. at the Royal meeting when trained by Wesley Ward, and returned to Britain to finish second to Mecca's Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in that year's G1 Nunthorpe S. Acapulco was transferred to O'Brien for an abbreviated 2017 campaign that has resulted in a lone start.
“It's very possible she won't run again,” O'Brien told the Irish Independent. “Royal Ascot was disappointing, but such is racing, and she is a very important mare for us.”
O'Brien also told that publication that last-out G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup runner-up Somehow (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) would not line up in Sunday's G1 Pretty Polly S. at The Curragh. O'Brien, who has won that race that last two years with Diamondsandrubies (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and Minding (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) still has three engaged for the race, for which Dermot Weld's Zhukova (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) is the favourite.
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