Godolphin star suffers fatal injury after racing into clear lead in big race

Measured Time, ridden by William Buick, collapsed successful the consecutive aft trying to marque each the moving successful the turf diagnostic astatine Meydan, Dubai, won by Hong Kong's Romantic Warrior

Godolphin prima Measured Time suffered a fatal wounded arsenic helium was bidding to triumph his 3rd Group 1 successful Dubai connected Friday.

The Charlie Appleby-trained five-year-old lined up nether William Buick aiming to repetition past year's triumph successful the Jebel Hatta, aft which helium went connected to triumph a Grade 1 contention successful the US.

This clip helium acceptable retired to marque each the moving and had opened up a 10 magnitude vantage entering the straight, but helium had conscionable been headed by Romantic Warrior erstwhile helium fell to the ground.

Buick walked distant from the incidental but Measured Time, who had won implicit £1.2 million, did not survive.

The incidental took the radiance of different superb show by Hong Kong champion Romantic Warrior who added his 11th apical level triumph nether James McDonald.

“He is simply a precise bully racehorse who adapts to immoderate circumstances, and during a race, goes connected immoderate surface, adapts to immoderate gait concern and has a large crook of foot,” said McDonald.

Romantic Warrior, who has present won large races successful 4 antithetic countries, has the extremity of the Saudi Cup connected dirt.

“Saudi is simply a wholly antithetic kettle of fish, we are going into chartless territory,” said the jockey. “I don’t cognize if helium volition spell connected the ungraded but helium has a phenomenal volition to triumph and that volition instrumentality him a batch of the way.”

Earlier connected the card, Dubai World Cup victor Laurel River was beaten astatine likelihood of 4-11 - 3 days aft being crowned the associated champion equine successful the world.

The frontrunner was caught astatine the winning station by the 66-1 King Gold, trained successful France, connected the ungraded astatine Meydan.

“I was much devastated for the equine getting beat,” said O’Shea. “He conscionable did a spot excessively overmuch and paid the terms for it precocious on. He is going to amended plentifulness for it.”

O’Shea and Laurel River’s trainer Bhupat Seemar could person different campaigner for the Saudi and Dubai World Cup successful Walk Of Stars, who captured the Group 1 Al Maktoum Challenge.