European BC winners, also-rans begin departures

Declaration of War, who ran a gallant third to Mucho Macho

Man in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic, is reported to be fit and well Sunday

morning and will head home Sunday evening with his other stablemates --

Breeders' Cup Turf hero Magician; Giovanni Boldini, Friday's Juvenile Turf

runner-up; Mile seventh-place finisher Cristoforo Colombo; Wilshire Boulevard,

ninth in the Juvenile Turf.

The Irish contingent will leave the quarantine barn Sunday

evening for Los Angeles International airport before flying to Ireland.

Declaration of War has run his final race and will join the

Coolmore Stud stallion roster. However, Magician will

remain in training in 2014 and his trainer Aidan O'Brien is very much looking

forward to having him back at Ballydoyle next season.

"Magician is by Galileo and they all seem to improve with

age especially from three- to four-years-old," O'Brien explained.

A possible early

season target for Magician is the Group 1, $5 million Dubai Sheema Classic at the end of

March on Dubai World Cup night.

Dank justified favoritism to win the Filly & Mare

Turf by a battling half-length over the Andre Fabre-trained Romantica, and was

also in good form on Sunday morning. However, the decision on her participation in the

Group 1 Hong Kong

Cup will not be made until the filly gets back to England.

Her trainer, Sir Michael Stoute, expressed his wish to keep the daughter of

Dansili in training next season, and when asked by the media whether she would

remain at Freemason Lodge in 2014 he replied, "You will have to ask her owner!"

When owner James Wigan was asked the same question he replied, "I will have

to discuss it further with Michael."

The Fugue, who also holds engagements in the Hong Kong

International races in December, is in a similar position as Dank, and a

decision regarding running in Hong Kong will be made this month. The dark bay

filly looked like the winner in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Turf before just being

caught by Magician on the wire.

The Richard Hannon-trained Olympic Glory, ninth in the Mile, has almost

certainly run his last race for 2013 and will be returning to the Hannon camp

for a campaign in 2014.

Marco Botti, who left immediately after Planteur's

disappointing last-place run in the Breeders' Cup Classic, was unable to comment as to

whether Planteur would remain in training in 2014.

The English raiders will also get on a plane at Los Angeles

International Airport later Sunday en route to Stansted Airport in England.

The two French challengers -- Romantica and Vorda -- will be

going their separate ways.

Vorda will head back to France on Monday following her seventh in Friday's

Juvenile Fillies Turf. Romantica, who has been retired after her second-place finish in the Filly & Mare

Turf, is traveling to Kentucky where she will join Juddmonte Farm's broodmare

band.

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