Sebring is retired

The autumn campaign of dual Group 1 Australian winner SEBRING (More Than

Ready) has been scrapped and the colt will be retired immediately to Widden

Stud, where he will stand at a fee to be announced this spring.

The chestnut, a three-year-old in the Southern Hemisphere, retires with a

record of five wins and a second in six starts and earnings of A$2,537,060.

Widden's

Antony Thompson said Sebring had a below-standard work Tuesday, with his rider

reporting that he was not happy. Vets later diagnosed "a re-occurring soundness

issue requiring a minimum eight weeks' spell."

"Sebring was a wonder horse -- the type they write movies about," trainer Gai

Waterhouse said.

Waterhouse added the Golden Slipper (Aus-G1) winner would be paraded at her

Randwick stables on February 1 before departing for Widden Stud. Foaled in 2005,

Sebring burst onto the scene last April with a victory in the Golden Slipper at

Rosehill. A week later, he bested Miss Samantha (Redoute's Choice) in the A.J.C.

Sires' Produce S. (Aus-G1) at Randwick, but he just failed to sweep the juvenile

Triple Crown when beaten a head by that smart filly in the A.J.C. Champagne S.

(Aus-G1) in early May.

Sebring's dam, Purespeed (Flying Spur), is a half-sister to multiple Group

winner Surtee (Memento).