Dual Guineas winner Rebel retires with leg injury

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Only last Wednesday, the colt had trainer Geoff Huffer waxing lyrical about his chances of making a successful return to action in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot later this month after turning in an 'electrifying' workout.

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Classic team: Huffer and his colt

Unfortunately, those hopes have now been dashed and connections are currently considering options for him to stand at stud.

Huffer said: 'Cockney Rebel was cantering this morning and was spooked by a piece of paper on the canter and hit his foreleg with his hind leg as he finished his exercise.

'He then went back to the stables where a slight swelling to his near fore was discovered.

'The vet was called to scan him and he said the horse would need three months rest.

'After consultation with owner Phil Cunningham, Phil took the decision to retire Cockney Rebel. As he quite rightly points out, he has proven himself to be one of the best milers for many a year.

'All at Grange House Stables are saddened by this. Cockney Rebel has given us and many people such wonderful memories and I am sure his progeny will do the same as he is one horse in a lifetime.'

A winner at two, Cockney Rebel burst onto the Classic scene when beating Vital Equine and Dutch Art on the Rowley Mile in May.

A 25-1 chance that day, any thoughts that the Newmarket performance was a fluke were dispelled in the Irish 2,000 Guineas when he followed up with a length defeat of Creachadoir.

Huffer then targeted the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot with his three-year-old but, after travelling well into the straight, he suffered a stress fracture to his pelvis and finished fifth to Excellent Art.