Workforce, the winner of last year’s English Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe has been retired to stud.
The four-year-old, owned by Khalid Abdullah and bred by his Juddmonte Farms operation, will stand at Teruya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm in Japan.
“He’s been a wonderful horse. To win a Derby and an Arc was pretty exceptional,” Abdullah’s racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe said.
Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Workforce was unable to match his two 2010 Group One successes this season.
After making a winning seasonal debut at Sandown in May, he was runner-up in both the Coral-Eclipse Stakes and King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.
His last start was in the Arc but he never looked like repeating last year’s triumph and was a well-beaten 12th behind Danedream.
The son of King’s Best won four of his nine starts and amassed STG3,200,000 ($A5.02 million) in prize money.
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