• Second favourite out of Filly & Mare Turf with temperature• Filly retires having won nine of her of her 21 career startsAidan O’Brien must travel to this year’s Breeders’ Cup without the animal he recently described as “the ultimate racehorse”, Magical having been found to have a temperature shortly before she was due to fly on Monday morning. The winner of more than £3m in prize money, she was immediately retired and will be covered by No Nay Never in the spring.
“She’s been an unbelievable mare, something you’d never dream of,” O’Brien said. The end of her career came suddenly, as he described her doing her final bit of work at 9am, half an hour before she was due to leave her Ballydoyle stable on the first leg of a long journey to California. But at 9.15am her temperature was taken and found to have spiked.