High quality mare Passive Aggressive has been retired from racing and is set visit I Am Invincible in the upcoming breeding season.
A winner of her first four starts 12 months ago, Passive Aggressive won five of her eight career starts, topping the $500,000 mark in prize money for Jonathan Munz’s Pinecliff Racing.
Passive Aggressive was successful twice at Stakes level, winning the Listed Creswick Stakes (1200m) at Flemington then first-up in her last campaign defeated Eduardo and Giga Kick in the Group 2 Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Randwick in March.
Following that first-up win, Passive Aggressive was aimed at Group 1 contests, finishing 11th to I Wish I Win in the TJ Smith at Randwick on April 1 before finishing eighth in the Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville on May 6.
Trainer Grahame Begg said the decision was made to retire after the mare’s performance at Morphettville.
“The decision was made overnight to retire her, and she’ll go to stud and visit I Am Invincible,” Begg said.
“She didn’t pull up great after the Robert Sangster and we made a conscious decision not to miss the breeding season.”
Begg said if Passive Aggressive failed to get in foal this season, he would welcome the mare back into his Cranbourne stable.
“If anything did happen and she didn’t get in foal, then she may come back into work, and then we might get another chance of trying to win a Group 1 with her,” he said.
