Immediately after the injury the owner, Alyazia Bint Sultan Al-Nahyane, made the decision to take the fourteen year old BWP-gelding away from Staut. The owner's spokesman confirms this. "We don't want to say anything about his future yet but we don't want to rush things right now. We can't forget that Equador is already fourteen years old."
Before Staut the gelding was ridden by Frederic David.