Group One winner Aegon took trainer and part-owner Andrew Forsman on a whirlwind ride over the last five years, but that journey has come to an end with the announcement of his retirement on Tuesday.
When a trainer takes on an expensive colt for a stallion syndicate there is a considerably higher degree of pressure placed on that trainer to turn that investment into a stallion of the future and when you lose your juvenile season due to a paddock accident, that task becomes a hell of a lot harder.