Ace Impact retired to stud

UNBEATEN Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe victor Ace Impact has been retired to stud in France.

Trained by Jean-Claude Rouget, the three-year-old has enjoyed an exemplary campaign, rising through the ranks from a Cagnes-Sur-Mer all-weather win in January to an electrifying length-and-three-quarters victory in the ParisLongchamp showpiece at the start of this month.

The son of Cracksman (by Frankel) is owned in partnership by Serge Stempniak and the Chehboub family’s Gousserie Racing. They have decided to retire their star to stand at Haras de Beaumont tud in Normandy.

Ace Impact bows out the winner of each of his six career starts, boasting a rating of 128 which puts him just 1lb behind top Japanese runner Equinox.

Good Land out for season

BARRY Connell’s Grade 1 winner Good Land has sustained a tendon injury and will miss the National Hunt season.

The seven-year-old was a bumper winner at the beginning of last term and developed into a Grade One-winning hurdler, taking a Leopardstown maiden before returning to land the Nathaniel Lacy Solicitors Novice Hurdle.

Subsequently the gelding lined up for the Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and finished a respectable fourth and was later found to have abnormalities in a blood test.

“We were planning to run him in the beginners’ chase there at Limerick on Munster National Day, we just did a piece of work with him at the Curragh on Tuesday and he seemed to be fine,” Connell explained.

“Then this morning we felt we were in a bit of difficulty, so we got the leg scanned and unfortunately he’s got a tendon injury. It’s treatable but he will be out for the season, we’re fairly hopeful we’ll have him back for next year.

Tattersalls Online Sale

attracts record entry

THE catalogue for next Thursday and Friday’s Tattersalls Online October Sale has been published and features a record number of 90 entries. There are 55 horses in/out of training, 17 yearlings, 11 broodmares, three stores, a single point-to-point offering, a filly foal by Tirwanako and breeding rights to Alkumait and Cracksman.

The 42 horses in training are headed by the classy two-year old Beauty Thunder, who was a game winner of a Roscommon maiden in August for Ger Lyons.

Web: tattersallsonline.com

Denis Linehan granted

jockeys’ agent licence

DENIS Linehan, assistant trainer to Johnny Murtagh, has been granted a jockeys’ agent licence and he is booking rides for Wesley Joyce and Shane Kelly on 083 023 4583.