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ROTHFIRE GIVES THEM 'ONE HELL OF A FRIGHT'

By Graham Potter | Saturday, May 17, 2025

It is very rare that Group 1 winning connections find time in the moment of success to praise the runner they beat into second place … but that was the case after the Doomben 10 000 where Rob Archbald and James McDonald, the co-trainer and the rider of the winner Sunshine In Paris, paid tribute to the outstanding effort of Rothfire, the runner-up who Sunshine In Paris only ran down in the final strides.

The story behind the story is that it was a marvel that Rothfire was there in the first place, yet alone competing with such aplomb at the elite level all this time later after a career threatening injury cut him down in his prime way back in September 2020.

Ultimately, with careful care and a measured rehabilitation program, Rothfire recovered and was brought back into work after losing twelve months of his racing career at a time when the world appeared to be at his feet.

That was a loss that could not be recovered and there are some moments when trainer Robert Heathcote admits he does “shudder to think what he might have been had he not suffered that injury’, but his thoughts do not linger there.

Instead, they are proudly placed in the present.

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... in which it took everything that Sunshine In Paris had in her armoury to shoot down Rothfire in the final strides
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Photos: Graham Potter
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