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St Nicholas Abbey Loses His Battle
14/01/14
Coolmore has confirmed that St Nicholas Abbey, Aidan O'Brien's triple Coronation Cup hero, died on Tuesday morning, 14th January 2014.
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The brilliant seven-year-old, winner of six races at the highest level, had to be put down after he suffered a bout of colic.
A statement issued by Coolmore read: "Regretfully St Nicholas Abbey has lost his brave battle after suffering a colic this morning. Surgery revealed a severe strangulating colon torsion that was unviable and he had to be euthanized on humane grounds."
The son of Montjeu faced a multitude of problems as he strived to recover from a fractured pastern he sustained last summer.
O'Brien's star had to be retired after suffering a leg injury on the gallops at Ballydoyle when being prepared for the Coronation Cup at Epsom, a race he went on to win two more times.
Arguably his two greatest successes came on the world stage, however.
He won the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2011, a victory which made his jockey Joseph O'Brien the youngest winner in Breeders' Cup history, and as recently as March he landed the Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan.
St Nicholas Abbey amassed close to 5million in prize-money, having won nine of his 21 races.
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