Editing Slip Anchor (section)

==Stud career==
Slip Anchor was retired to the [[Stud (animal)|stud]] duty at his owner's [[Plantation Stud]] at [[Exning]] near Newmarket,<ref>{{cite news|author=Horse Racing |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/2357787/End-of-line-for-Plantation-Stud.html |title=End of line for Plantation Stud |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=2013-05-10}}</ref>

Slip Anchor most notably produced the 1992 [[European Horse of the Year]], [[User Friendly (horse)|User Friendly]], winner of [[Epsom Oaks|The Oaks]] and [[St Leger Stakes]]. His other good winners included Posidonas, ([[Gran Premio d'Italia]], [[Princess of Wales's Stakes]], [[Hardwicke Stakes]]), Morshdi ([[Italian Derby]], [[Grosser Preis von Baden]]), Give the Slip ([[Ebor Handicap]], 2nd [[Melbourne Cup]]) and Slicious ([[Premio Roma]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/profile/horse/303734/slip-anchor |publisher=Racing Post |title=Slip Anchor Stud Record |date=2012-02-15 |access-date=2013-05-11}}</ref>

In later years, he began to suffer from [[arthritis]] but was exercised every day and described as "a charming character" and "a bit of a poser" by his handlers.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,641871,00.html |title=Slip Anchor |newspaper=The Observer |date=23 February 2002 |access-date=2013-05-11}}</ref> Slip Anchor was [[Animal euthanasia|euthanised]] at the age of twenty-nine on 22 September 2011 at [[Plantation Stud]] at [[Exning]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Bruce Jackson |url=http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/1985-derby-winner-slip-anchor-dies-aged-29/920057/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103115016/http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/1985-derby-winner-slip-anchor-dies-aged-29/920057/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-11-03 |title=1985 Derby winner Slip Anchor dies aged 29 |work=[[Racing Post]]|date=2011-09-22 |access-date=2013-05-11}}</ref> The stud manager explained that "he just started to go downhill in the last few weeks&nbsp;... it was due to the infirmities of old age."<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.ownerbreeder.co.uk/2011/09/slip-anchor-dies-at-29/ |title=Slip Anchor dies at 29 |work=Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder Magazine |date=22 September 2011 |access-date=2013-05-11}}</ref> His body was cremated, and his remains were laid next to champion miler [[Kris (horse)|Kris]].