Dwyer keen to give Asfoora ‘one last hurrah’ before retirement

Henry Dwyer is inclined to give Asfoora “one last hurrah” at Goodwood before the multiple Group One-winning sprinter heads off to the paddocks.

The Australian mare has had four runs in the UK this summer, and has failed to get involved at the business end in any of them.

She appeared to have a gilt-edged opportunity down in grade at Sandown on Saturday, but missed the break and was in last place throughout sparking talk of retirement.

“We’ve not made a decision, we’re just going to give ourselves the next couple of weeks,” Dwyer told SEN’s Giddy Up show.

“She’s booked to go into quarantine on July 31 so she can’t really come home earlier anyway, the race that she can run in here (King George Qatar Stakes) is that same day so we’ve got four weeks up our sleeve.

“I just want to give her a week off in the paddock and just reassess after that. That will give us the chance to consider the realities of everything and make a more educate decision.

“There’s nothing wrong with her, she’s pulled up super and that is probably the problem, she just looked after herself. She lurched at the gates and was then just on the back foot and missed it by a couple of lengths. Oisin (Murphy, jockey) never knocked her around and she pulled up like she hadn’t had a run.

“There’s nothing wrong, there’s no reason she’s run poorly other than she just didn’t turn up on the day. She does that from time to time and that is probably showing us that she doesn’t want to be there any more, but we’re also conscious she has done that over the last couple of years and then come out and run a blinder after it.

“Given there’s nothing wrong with her I’d be inclined to maybe give her one last hurrah at Goodwood and then she can come home and go to stud, but we’ll make that decision after we’ve given her a week.”