Magnolia Racing Stable and Hidden Brook Farm’s Street Life, who pulled up
after the wire and was vanned off after finishing last in the Grade 1 Travers,
has been retired, trainer Chad Brown said Thursday morning.
The three-year-old Street Sense colt was diagnosed as having suffered a
ruptured ligament in his left front pastern, said Brown, and was resting
comfortably in his stall, where he will remain indefinitely.
“The horse seems happy, stable,” said Brown of Street Life, who was the 6-1
fourth choice in the Travers after he prepped for the race with a 1 3/4-length
victory in the July 27 Curlin. “(The injury) is not unprecedented, but
it’s new to me; I’ve never had that happen before.”
Winner of the Broad Brush Stakes at Aqueduct in his third start, Street Life
next finished sixth in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial, third in the Grade 2 Peter Pan
and fourth in the Belmont Stakes. After the Curlin, Brown believed the colt was
poised to take the next step forward in his career.
“It’s very disheartening that we’re losing the horse for his career,” Brown
said.
“I mean, this horse, it was one thing to take a loss in the Travers, a race
we thought we had a real shot to win. That’s hard enough to take; you don’t get
too many cracks at the race when you really think you’re live going in the gate.
“Then, to not only lose the race but lose the horse for his career, a horse
that I felt had an enormous amount of potential and could have gone on to
accomplish great things, is harder to take.”
Street Life, who began his career in January, earned $237,735 from an 8-3-0-1
record.
“The ownership group, both the McNairs and Hidden Brook Farm, is very fond of
this horse and this is a horse that will have a great, pampered life somewhere,”
Brown said.
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