ARCADIA, THE ALMOST-LEGEND
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
AS
Bob Peters agonises over whether to rehabilitate or retire
Arcadia Queen, analysts are adamant she will be remembered as one of the great mares of modern times.
RSN’s leading analyst,
Verry Elleegant, a bit of a
Hareeba. Too big and too strong for her own good. But he very best was elite.”
Peters said he would decide in the next day or so whether to attempt to resurrect
Arcadia Queen from a deep flexor tendon injury to her near side front foreleg.
“If she was three, you’d patch her up and go again because it’s an injury that can recover with time and rehab,” Peters said. “But she’s five and the injury would rule her out of the spring, when she would be six, leaving us with the following autumn.