Star South African juvenile Argonaut will return home after failing to reach the racetrack in Australia.  After numerous issues and injuries while in work with Lee Freedman, Argonaut will be repatriated to stand at Cheveley Stud in the Cape Province.

Argonaut won the G1 Golden Horseshoe and G1 Premier’s Stakes in 2007 and was then exported to Blue Gum Farm.  Plans were to win an Australian Group 1 with the son of Western Winter (Gone West) to make him a viable sire prospect in Victoria.

Unfortunately, his Rye racing career didn’t work according to plan.  He came down with a lung infection and then was cast in his box which caused serious damage.

Argonaut was bred at Vaughan Koster’s Cheveley Stud and will return there to stand alongside Badger’s Drift and Tamburlaine.