Multiple stakes winner Rose Brier retired

Panic Stable’s Rose Brier, whose five career stakes victories all came at Maryland tracks and also owns a one-mile track record over Laurel Park’s world-class turf course, was retired from racing Wednesday, trainer Jane Cibelli said.

 

An 8-year-old Mizzen Mast gelding, Rose Brier won 14 of 40 career starts and finished with $527,116 in purse earnings. Most recently he was second by a nose to Special Envoy in the Edward Evans for Virginia-breds June 24 at Laurel, a race he won last year when it was contested at historic Pimlico Race Course.

 

“He didn’t come out of that race that great. He had a bit of filling in an ankle and sometimes he gets that. I wasn’t too awful concerned but he wasn’t quite right so we just kind of backed off him and jogged him a little bit,” Cibelli said. “Yesterday I just didn’t like the way the ankle looked. We ultrasounded him and he’s got a very small tear in his suspensory. It’s very minor but he’s 8 years old and if he can’t compete at that level we’re not going to jam him down into claiming races or anything like that. He’s been too good to us.

 

“So, we got together and said it was just time. It’s sad, because he doesn’t think it’s time,” she added. “He’s all racehorse. If you put him on the track he’s going to go out there and try, that’s just the kind of horse he is. It is what it is, but it’s very sad. I could spend another 20 years in this game and never have another horse quite like him. He’s very, very special.”

 

Rose Brier joined Cibelli prior to his 4-year-old season in 2013, breaking his maiden that August at Monmouth Park. He would go on to win the Bert Allen against Virginia-breds from 2014-16 and the open Henry S. Clark last April, all at Laurel. In the Clark, he set the track record for one mile on the Kelso Turf Course in 1:33.11.

 

In addition Rose Brier was fourth or better in six graded stakes including thirds in the 2016 and 2017 Red Bank (G3). He finished first in the Tropical Turf Handicap (G3) by 1 ¼ lengths last fall at Gulfstream Park West but was disqualified to second for interference.

 

“When when I got him he started out in maiden claiming ranks and just got better and better as he got older,” Cibelli said. “Apart from that, he’s just a nice horse to be around. He’s got a great personality. We’ll certainly miss him.”

 

Cibelli is currently seeking a forever home for Rose Brier. She said she would like to see him go to a place where he can be active rather than just retire to pasture.

 

“I’d like him to be somewhere where he could be useful because he’s still got a lot left in him. He just can’t race,” she said. “I’ve got a few feelers out right now and there’s people in Virginia that might be interested. I’m hoping that someone will come forward. I just want to make sure he’ll have a home where he can be useful because he’s so enjoyable. He can give someone else a lot of enjoyment.”