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Better Talk Now retired after injury

By David Grening
Daily Racing Form

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

ELMONT, N.Y. - There will be no swan-song race for Better Talk Now. Better Talk Now, the 10-year-old gelding and earner of $4.35 million in purse money, was officially retired from racing Tuesday after developing a fresh tear in the suspensory ligament of his left hind leg, trainer Graham Motion said. Better Talk Now was scheduled to make the 52nd and final start of his career in Saturday's $600,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational at Belmont Park. "It's disappointing," Motion said by phon ...

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