Star Singapore sprinter Super One is being retired to stud.
Trainer Lee Freedman confirmed on Tuesday morning Super One has run his last race and will stand at Newgate Farm in the coming season.
Super One was dominant winning his first four races in Singapore, but hasn’t been able to replicate that record since coming to Australia.
After being transferred from Michael Freedman to the stables of his brothers Lee and Anthony, Super One showed his speed to take out the Group 3 DC McKay Stakes in Adelaide earlier this month before finishing down the track in The Goodwood last start.
“There’s that much interest in him now from breeders, at a price, that he’s going to be retired and go to Newgate Farm and stand this season there,” Lee Freedman said.
“(Newgate Farm managing director) Henry Field assures me that ... he’s going to get really well supported in his first season, he’s a great looking horse with great speed so he could get some really nice two-year-olds.
“He’s as fast an entire as I’ve ever trained - he’s got enormous speed.
“We’ve had a great record our stallions - Flying Spur, Encosta de Lago, Danzero and those type of horses - and this horse excites me a bit because he and Brazen Beau are probably the two fastest sons of I Am Invincible.
“He’s very much like his father, his wasn’t a Group 1 winner and his father was essentially a 1000m-1100m horse but he’s doing such a great job at stud.”
Freedman wasn’t at all disappointed with Super One’s run in The Goodwood, saying circumstances were against him.
“He ran a great race - it probably didn’t work out entirely well for him,” Freedman said.
“We were hoping to get a leader-dominated race where they’d have to get off the rail but as it turned out the horses that were his biggest threat didn’t have to do a lot of work because they found space on the rail and came through.
“That said, he’s probably an 1100m horse. He’d probably get 1200m at a lesser level, as he did in Singapore.”
Super One finishes his career with five wins and a second from eight starts, collecting $444,047 in prizemoney.