Believe You Can retired

Brereton C. Jones' homebred

Believe You Can, winner of the 2012 Kentucky Oaks, has been retired,

according to a Daily Racing Form report. On Friday morning, trainer Larry

Jones said that the filly would rest at her owner's Airdrie Stud and undergo a

medical check-up after she was declared out of the Grade 2 Falls City Handicap

on Thanksgiving Day.

Winner of the Tiffany Lass and New Orleans Ladies in her first two starts

this year, Believe You Can had not started since finishing last of six runners

in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps H. at Belmont Park on May 27. Jones had been

enthusiastic about Believe You Can's planned return in the Falls City following

a five-furlong work in 1:00 4/5 at Churchill Downs last Saturday.

A six-time stakes heroine, Believe You Can earned $1,280,324 from a 14-8-0-2

career record

Jones felt good about Believe You Can's progress until Monday, when he was in

the saddle when she returned to the track for a gallop.

"She galloped out a mile (in the work) and I was very pleased with it," the

trainer said. "The next day she ate and did everything right, but she was

knocked out. She wouldn't hang her head out of the stall, but it was okay --

there was no heat or anything. Then the next day I galloped her and she galloped

okay, but boy, when horses would come by her she had nothing. She wouldn't even

try to go with them and that's not her.

"Then when she did that a second day in a row, I told (owner) Brery (Jones)

that she's not going to be ready to run Thursday."

Jones is awaiting results of the tests performed on Believe You Can, which he

hopes will explain her lack of enthusiasm in her training.

"They're going to do some blood work," he said. "She's perfectly sound. Maybe

she was getting sick. It's just one of those deals -- you know that she was not

going to be racing in 10 days. Hopefully, she's just got a little bug."

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