Andrew Forsman’s successful Cambridge stable has bid farewell to True Enough (NZ) (Nom De Jeu), who raced with distinction up to the highest level.
Time has been called on the career of the nine-year-old son of Nom De Jeu with a combination of age and difficulty placing the gelding to his best advantage resulting in his retirement.
True Enough was a versatile performer who won nine races, including the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m), and placed on a further 12 occasions to retire as the winner of more than $590,000.
“He’s been a terrific horse and toward the end of his career he had niggling setbacks at the wrong time, which made it all a bit hard but he was genuine right up to the end,” Forsman said.
True Enough enjoyed a purple patch of form in his 2019/20 season, when Forsman was in partnership with Murray Baker.
He claimed the Zabeel Classic, the Gr.2 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m) and the Gr.3 Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) and posted Group One placings in the New Zealand Stakes (2000m), Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) and the Captain Cook Stakes (1600m).
He subsequently suffered a tendon injury that sidelined him for 16 months and he returned to run third in the Gr.3 Easter Handicap (1600m) with his final appearance a midfield finish in the Gr.3 Japan Trophy (1600m).
“He was a very good and tough horse and we got to the point where he was still running solid races, but he was hard to place in a handicap and there was not a lot around for him at weight-for-age,” Forsman said.
“He was getting older and lacked that bit of dash he had when he was younger and while he wasn’t running poorly, he didn’t owe us anything so we have retired him.”
