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jejquade · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: Ishiguru

By Sally Duckett3.52PM 18 SEP 2009

TWEENHILLS STUD stallion Ishiguru, winner of the Flying Five Stakes at Leopardstown, has been put down at the age of 11 following complications from a kneeinjury

He was retired to Tweenhillsin Gloucestershire in 2003 and his best progeny to date has been Hellvelyn, winner of the Coventry Stakes and runner-up in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes in 2006.

Further stakes winners include Ferneley, winner of Del Mar Handicap in the US two weeks ago, and She's Our Mark, winner of the Desmond Stakes as a three-year-old and the Meld Stakes this spring. She also finished fifth in the Pretty Polly Stakes last year.

Tweenhills Stud director David Redvers said: "We are inconsolable at theloss of a fantastic horse. He had a wonderful temperament and after a tremendous amount of hard work his progeny were beginning to establish results that made him such an asset to mare owners, both here and in New Zealand."