EQUINE WELFARE
Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen winner Comicas will be competing in eventing and show jumping events this summer around England, while 2008 Sandown Guineas winner and Randwick Guineas runner-up Caymans who campaigned in Dubai and the UK for Godolphin before his retirement, works at a unique falconry centre in Dartmoor in the south of England, working daily with birds of prey. In Australia, stakes winners Etymology and Allergic have found new homes, but so too has the unraced Bramerel, one-start maiden Cul De Sac and maiden winner Condemned, proving that the Lifetime Care program isn’t just reserved for big name retirees. Cross Counter might be retired from the track, but Leonard says the horse still has the air of a champion. Nicknamed “Mel” which borrows from the Melbourne Cup, the eight year old is a star pupil. “Since coming into work, he progressed extremely well, but we took every step very slowly with him to allow him to adjust.
Cross Counter and Kerrin McEvoy winning the 2018 Lexus Melbourne Cup. (Brett Holburt/Racing Photos)
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