Ring Weekend Training For New Career
With career earnings of US$1,571,576, West Point Thoroughbreds owned Group One winning Ring Weekend has been retired. The 7-year-old Tapit is retraining for a second career with Olympian Phillip Dutton.
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The accomplished gelding has won six graded stakes while under the care of Graham Motion but ended his career with a unimpressive seventh place in the Gr.2 King Edward Stakes at Woodbine.
Other Motion trainees to transition to second careers under Dutton include Sea of Clouds, Quadrivium, Water Cube, and most notably 2014 America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred winner Icabad Crane.
Dutton has piloted ex-racehorses Truluck and The Foreman around some of the world's most prestigious events.
Credit: Ritesh Jamkhedkar ritesh.jamkhedkar@secretariatsworld.com