Ace signs off to head off to Stud

Well today is the start of a new era for the kennels as we now need to get used to not having Ballymac Ace as our kennel superstar as he was retired last night after finishing second in last nights Division 1 Open.


Ballymac Ace (Ace Hi Rumble x Ballymac Mir) had 71 races in his career with us winning 31. He never once ran in graded company and won at twelve different tracks at distances varying from 305 to 480 metres. His greatest moments came when he won the 2010 Pall Mall and the 2011 East Anglian Derby. Throughout his career it seemed he reached all the big finals on Sky. 


Ace was the real favourite of his owner Ted Megaws and it gave me the greatest pleasure to give Ted one more big race win before he sadly lost his battle with illness. He will be of course missed by us all at the kennels and no more so than Paul who has worked with the dog since his arrival from Ireland. Paul did a brilliant job with the dog and played a huge role in keeping the dog so well physically and mentally.


Ace will now head to Merefield Stud where he will be very well looked after and I can't wait to have a few Ballymac Ace pups to train. 


Farewell old boy, you will be missed...............