Woodbine

Mr Havercamp retired after injury

Ron Gierkink|May 31, 2020

Mr Havercamp wins the Forbidden Apple Stakes at Saratoga Race Course

Barbara D. Livingston Trainer Catherine Day Phillips is taking her time with Mr Havercamp, winner of the Forbidden Apple at Saratoga.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Catherine Day Phillips has announced that the popular Mr Havercamp has been retired after suffering an injury in a Saturday workout at Woodbine.

“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the retirement of multiple Canadian champion Mr Havercamp,” Day Phillips said Sunday on Twitter. “We are all so grateful for the journey that he has taken us on! Havercamp injured his pelvis breezing yesterday. Full recovery is expected.”

Mr Havercamp, a 6-year-old gelding owned by Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry, was Canada’s champion older male and champion male turf horse in 2018. That year, he won the Grade 2 Play the King, the Grade 2 Autumn, and ran second in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile.

Mr Havercamp took the Grade 3 Forbidden Apple at Saratoga last July. His final start was a fourth-place finish in the Grade 3 Seagram here Aug. 11.

A homebred by Court Vision, Mr Havercamp won 8 of 14 starts and banked $847,210.

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