Arcadia Queen scratched from All-Star Mile at Moonee Valley after failing vet test

Star WA mare Arcadia Queen was scratched from the $5 million All-Star Mile just hours before the race after failing another vet test this morning.

The long-time favourite for the Moonee Valley race, Arcadia Queen was still lame this morning after Racing Victoria vets first reported she was lame on Thursday.

The three-time Group 1 winner shifted a plate at Brent Stanley’s Sutton Grange stable on Thursday.

Disappointed owner Bob Peters said vets told co-trainers Grant and Alana Williams that the mare’s gait had changed since she raced in Melbourne last spring.

“They can’t tell us where she is sore, or if she is sore,” Peters told Radio Sport National.

“They say she has a different gait to when she was here for the Cox Plate.”

Fifty Stars has taken Arcadia Queen’s place in the All-Star Mile (1600m).

Champion jockey William Pike will still ride in the race, picking up the ride on Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet after John Allen switched to ride Fifty Stars.

Arcadia Queen’s interstate campaign isn’t necessarily over — she is entered for features during the upcoming Sydney carnival.

Her scratching continues a wretched run for Peters in Melbourne, with Celebrity Queen’s dead-heat win in the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield the exception.

Regal Power returned home after one disappointing run, Perfect Jewel was retired and hospitalised with a lung infection and Celebrity Queen pulled up lame after the Newmarket Handicap.