The five-year-old entire, owned by Khalid Abdullah, is this week set to retire to stud after securing six wins from 18 starts, and earning just under £420,000 in prize-money. Although a Group One triumph proved elusive, the consistent Bated Breath finished second four times at the highest level - including in this season's King's Stand Stakes and in last year's Betfred Sprint Cup. His one Pattern-race success came in the Group Two Temple Stakes in May, when he smashed the five-furlong course record at Haydock. Charlton said: "Bated Breath leaves Beckhampton this week to go to Juddmonte Farm's Banstead Manor Stud to take up stallion duties alongside his hugely popular sire Dansili. "He has been a wonderful horse to train, genuine, tough, sound, and consistent with a bombproof temperament. "I am sure when breeders see him they will fall in love with him. "We will all miss his wonderful bold head looking out of his box and I will look forward to training his sons and daughters," the Beckhampton handler told his
They've said he's been retired as, as a fast-ground loving horse, he is unlikely to get his favoured ground for the rest of the season.
