Ron Leemon will find "a good home" for Manawanui after he bled from both nostrils for the second time as he won a Rosehill barrier trial on Tuesday morning.
Manawanui, a Golden Rose winner and Caulfield Guineas runner-up to Helmet, is banned from racing in Australia following his second bleeding attack. Leemon ruled out sending him overseas and immediately retired the six-year-old.
"We just need to find a good home for him now. He has done so much for me and the owners and I would not want him to leave us," Leemon said. "A small trainer like me doesn't get too many horses like him and we want him to have a long happy life away from the track.
"I'm just happy it happened when it did because he wasn't under as much pressure in the trial as he would be on race day. We can take him home and look after him."
Manawanui won seven of his 20 starts amassing more than $1.4 million in prizemoney and had been tuning up for a return in Saturday's Canterbury Stakes at Randwick.
