Lingering Injury Forces Dehere’s Retirement

Dehere, who sizzled at Saratoga in the summer of 1993 en route to the 2-year-old championship, will not race again.

The colt, in training for a comeback from a broken leg, is being retired to breeding at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., it was announced on Thursday by John Perrotta, general manager of Robert Brennan’s Due Process Stable.

Dehere, trained by Reynaldo Nobles, suffered a broken right hind leg during a workout March 4 at Palm Beach Downs in Florida.

The colt was back in training, but Perrotta said, “He was getting sore in the spot where he hurt himself. He was about 99%, but that is not good enough for a champion.”

Dehere won his debut, a maiden race at Monmouth Park July 30, 1993, then swept all three 2-year-old stakes at Saratoga (the Saratoga Special, Sanford and Hopeful). He then was beaten by Holy Bull in the Futurity at Belmont Park, won the Champagne at Belmont and finished eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Nov. 6.