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Dods confirms Mecca’s Angel retirement
- Updated: October 17, 2016
Michael Dods has confirmed his star sprinter Mecca’s Angel has been retired following her run on Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday.
Winner of York’s Nunthorpe Stakes for the last two years, the five-year-old mare was unable to end her racing career on a high.
Mecca’s Angel ran below par in the Qipco British Champions Sprint won by The Tin Man. Dods felt she was probably feeling the effects of her gallant effort in the Prix de l’Abbaye just 13 days earlier when she was a close third to Marsha …