Puissance De Lune Retired

Puissance de Lune (Ire) (Shamardal–Princess Serena, by Unbridled’s Song), a multiple group winner and Group 1-placed in Australia, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Swettenham Stud in Victoria, Australia later this year, according to published reports. The 7-year-old made his first four starts in France before being sold to Australian owner Gerry Ryan, and he quickly reeled off three straight group victories Down Under, making him the early favorite for the 2013 G1 Melbourne Cup. Puissance de Lune finished second in that year’s G1 Makybe Diva S. and G1 Turnbull S., but failed to make it to the starting gate for the Melbourne Cup after injuring himself in the G1 Cox Plate. He returned to competition after an extended layoff for a spring 2014 campaign but was unplaced in two tries. 
Puissance de Lune is by Shamardal, sire of last year’s European champion first-season sire Lope De Vega (Ire), and is out of a daughter of Serena’s Sister (Rahy), a full-sister to Serena’s Song. A half-sister to Puissance de Lune, Serena’s Storm (Ire) (Statue of Liberty), produced the G1 Moyglare Stud S. and G1 Coronation S. winner Rizeena (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}).