High-Class Filly Scenic Retired to Stud

Scenic, the winner of this year's G3 Bronte Cup Fillies' Stakes at York, has been retired to stud after meeting with a setback.

Trained by Ed Walker, the daughter of Lope De Vega heads to the paddocks as the winner of three of her 18 starts and just shy of £200,000 in career earnings. Initially owned by David Ward, she was bought by Wathnan Racing after her first Group-race success on the Knavesmire and was last seen filling the runner-up spot in the G2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock.

Wathnan's racing adviser Richard Brown said, “Scenic put up a career-best performance last time out and it wasn't unreasonable to hope for some even greater days ahead, but it's not to be. She will spend some time recuperating before joining the Wathnan broodmare band. She's one of the best fillies in an exceptional Classic family of broodmares, so the dream now is of big successes with her progeny.”