Calveen, Legs retired

Champion CALVEEN (Canny Lad) and New Zealand Oaks (NZ-G1) winner LEGS (Pins)

have both been retired with suspensory problems.

Six-year-old Calveen, New Zealand's champion sprinter and miler at four, was

scratched out of Saturday's Otaki-Maori Weight-for-Age Cup (NZ-G1).

"The veterinarian found on Thursday that she had heat in her near-side front

suspensory ligament," co-owner Don McLaren told New Zealand Thoroughbred

Marketing. "She has done us proud over the past four years and deserves now

to be retired to stud with a lot of dignity."

A winner of 10 of her 33 career starts, Calveen captured the 2005 Easter H.

(NZ-G1) and four additional Group 2 events, and earned NZ$568,540. She is a

half-sister to stakes winner and Group 1-placed Kosi Bay (Spinning World).

Breeding plans have not yet been announced.

Meanwhile, Waikato Stud's Legs, heroine of the New Zealand Oaks and the

NZ$1-million Kelt Capital S. (NZ-G1) last season, suffered a tear in a front

suspensory ligament on the eve of a Sydney campaign.

"It's a blow, but you've got to take the good with the bad," Waikato Stud

Manager Mark Chittick said. "We were confident that she could measure up in some

of those good races in Sydney."

The four-year-old heads to the paddock with five wins from 12 career outings

and earnings of NZ$875,429. She will be bred in the autumn either to Redoute's

Choice or Savabeel, Waikato's young stallion who captured the Cox Plate (Aus-G1)

in 2004.

"We'll make up our minds on that closer to the time, but either of those

horses would be an ideal match-up," Chittick added.