Onemorenomore Retired

Sydney, December 30, 2009: GROUP 1 WINNER ONEMORENOMORE RETIRED

It is with great sadness that Patinack Farm advises of an injury forced retirement to its high-class Group 1 winning sprinter ONEMORENOMORE.

Onemorenomore stumbled at Warwick Farm on Tuesday morning whilst trotting and went down on his knees. X-rays were taken on Wednesday revealing a damaged exterior carpal bone. Prognosis of a return to the races was good however the injury is estimated to require 12-months of rehabilitation before he could return to the races, so it was with a heavy heart that Patinack principal Nathan Tinkler made the decision this afternoon to retire the three-year-old.

"It’s a devastating blow to us. He is a colt very close to my heart as he is the first Group 1 winner that we bought as a yearling," Tinkler explains. "The horse looked absolutely magnificent and we had extremely high hopes for him in the Autumn and to lose him to such an innocuous accident like this is a crushing blow to John Thompson and all the team at Warwick Farm

"If there is a consolation it is that he will now be able to stand alongside his close relative Casino Prince at Patinack. If there is such a thing as a blue-blooded stallion prospect then this horse is it, especially with Red Ransom passing away earlier this year."

Internationally acclaimed Red Ransom (USA) is making a name for himself as a sire of sires, most notably through the deeds of Charge Forward, the sire of Group 1 winner Headway.

Purchased by Patinack for $800,000 from the Cressfield draft at the 2008 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Onemorenomore was the most expensive sale yearling by Red Ransom in 2008. A half-brother to Listed winner Dr Green, Onemorenomore is out of the Group 3 winner Palia, a daughter of influential broodmare sire Last Tycoon (Ire) and a sister to Lady Capel, the dam of Group 1 winner Casino Prince, who provided Patinack Farm with its first Group 1 winner when he took out the 2008 AJC Chipping Norton Stakes after being purchased privately as a racing and stallion prospect.

Casino Prince (Flying Spur) had his first foals on the ground this spring and they are outstanding individuals.

A Group 1 winner at two, Onemorenomore retires with earnings of $456,510. All of his 12 starts were in Group or Listed events and Listed company and he was never out of the first six.

In winning the Champagne Stakes (Gr 1) over 1600m, Onemorenomore adds his name to an illustrious list of previous winners including leading sires Luskin Star, Baguette, Vain, Sky High, Noholme, Todman and Heroic.

"The Australian yearling market wants juvenile Group 1 winners by proven sires and in Onemorenomore those wishes will come true for breeders in 2010," Tinkler says. "We look forward to Onemorenomore embarking on his new career and it goes without saying that I will support him with my best mares."