Julian Richmond-Watson’s homebred LOOK HERE (GB) (Hernando [Fr]) has been
retired following a seventh-place finish in last Saturday’s E.P. Taylor S.
(Can-G1) at Woodbine. Last year’s Epsom Oaks
(Eng-G1) heroine, who also ran third in the St Leger (Eng-G1) at Doncaster, has not prevailed
since her classic win, despite showing a consistent level of form this term.
Third in the blanket finish of the June 5 Coronation Cup (Eng-G1) at Epsom in her
seasonal return, she hit the board again in the June 27 Pretty Polly S. (Ire-G1) at The Curragh.
Look Here then ran sixth in the July 25 King George VI & Queen
Elizabeth S. (Eng-G1) at Ascot and was denied by a nose in the Arc
Trial (Eng-G3) at Newbury in her penultimate start September 18.
“Look Here won’t run again;
she will go back to her owners’ (Wakefield Lodge Estate) in Northamptonshire,
and we will make plans to cover her in the spring,” trainer Ralph Beckett told
PA Sport. “She was brilliant for us and she did us the power of good, but things
just didn’t go her way this year. We were in front two hops from the line in the
Coronation Cup, and got mugged on the line in the Group 3 at Newbury.”
“We never expected (her Oaks win),” Beckett admitted. “I remember having lunch beforehand,
and we said if she could finish in the first six that would be great. That was
genuinely what we thought because she had never been a flash worker. We never
had an inkling she would win like she did, and it all worked out so well.
“We
then had a choice between the (Prix) Vermeille (Fr-G1) and the Leger, and went for the Leger,
which turned out to be probably the best Leger of recent times.”
Look Here retires to the paddocks with a career record of 9-2-2-3 and
earnings of $653,012.