Arguably the best juvenile last season with five brilliant wins culminating with the G1 BRC JJ Atkins, the Chris and Corey Munce trained Cool Archie has been officially retired with a stud career now in the pipeline.
The star performer from the first crop of Newhaven Park based Savabeel son Cool Aza Beel, Cool Archie was bred and sold by Newhaven at Magic Millions for $100,000 and raced in the colours of Max Whitby.
"I officially retired him on Monday," Whitby told Racenet.
"We got exhaustive vet checking done and got various medical opinions.
"The bottom line is that we didn't want to diminish his two-year-old record, which we all know speaks for itself.
"I would have loved to have got him back as a three-year-old, but it was not to be.
"I could have put him in the paddock for a year, but he would have been a four-year-old.
"He has an injury to the upper part of his knee, a very hard part to get to.
"I was hanging in there with him for a while, I thought maybe he could come back.
"But the injury was very significant, not life-threatening or anything, but definitely career-threatening.
"I couldn't wait until he was four to start racing again and then if he had come back and if he had failed, it would have done damage to his reputation.
"It's a bit sad, because he could have been anything."
Cool Archie retires with five wins from nine starts and prizemoney of $1.6million with several studs in the mix to stand the super talented colt, who won from 1000 to 1600m and was effective on all surfaces.
On the pedigree front, he also holds appeal being completely free of Danehill blood and from a female family tracing to an exceptional racemare in Bravery.
Whitby indicated there were multiple studs interested in Cool Archie as a future stallion.
"I've got probably five or six studs interested," Whitby said.
"There is one prominent New South Wales Stud that is well advanced in negotiations with me."
