VF – Accidents can happen of course but for me it wasn’t a run that said he should be retired and if horses were all retired due to bleeding from the nose after a race then there would I imagine be a lot of retired racehorses floating around.
As long as he gets a full MOT to ensure that there is not some other issue, I don’t see why he shouldn’t run again – this was his first race back for a while and while he was fit, he clearly lacked race fitness and that told up the straight.
At least this race has now lowered expectations as to what level he is at on the flat and as I said previously I don’t think a G3 win is off the table given the right set of circumstances.