fiveforthree sustained an injury at the end of the season 2008/2009 season and failed to improve when returning to mullins stable in autumn. in november mullins announced that the gelding would miss the next season saying "we just decided not to go any further. we were hoping he would make it back for the second half of the season. every other year he seems to come back, but he just hasn't taken his training well. there is no further damage or injury. we have just decided it would be prudent not to continue".