Nightime retired, in foal to Holy Roman Emperor

Last year's Irish One Thousand Guineas (Ire-G1) winner NIGHTIME (Galileo

[Ire]), who is currently in foal to Holy Roman Emperor, has been retired. Bred

and owned by trainer Dermot Weld's mother, Gita, the impressive six-length

victress of the Curragh classic ran off the board in the Tattersalls Gold Cup

(Ire-G1) at The Curragh in her sole four-year-old start on May 27 and

connections have decide to call time.

"When we ran her in the Coronation S. ([Eng-G1] at Royal Ascot) after (the

Irish One Thousand Guineas) last year, she pulled a muscle quite badly and I

never really got her quite right," Weld explained on Sunday. "We decided to

breed her to Holy Roman Emperor and I'm delighted to say she's safely in foal.

"She was an extremely talented filly and it was just unfortunate that she had

a recurrent muscle problem. I think we did the right thing in breeding her and

retiring her."

Nightime retires as the winner of two of her five starts and with

£224,500 in earnings.