It
was a great shame that we were unable to run Kavanaghs Corner at Chepstow
yesterday in a novice hurdle as it looked an ideal opportunity for him. He was schooled on Tuesday by Andrew Thornton
and over-reached above his tendon boot and just took the hair off behind his
knee, not even breaking the skin luckily.
I wasn’t worried at all and it looked superficial. The evening before his race I noticed some
inflammation and a slight tenderness high up on his tendon which set the alarm
bells ringing. After speaking with Buffy
we decided to see how he was in the morning.
No change in the morning so she very kindly gave up cooking her father a
lovely lunch and dashed to the yard (she said ‘he can have dinner instead!’)
and came to scan him. Fortunately the
ultrasound scan was normal, just a bit of mild bruising. Casey is now on the easy list, steady
cantering away until the bruising subsides and then we can gallop so we are
hopefully going to be back racing in a couple of weeks if all goes according to
plan. It was such a shame as his owners,
Norman & Bridget, had flown all the way from their home in Spain to see him
run!
If I
am in any doubt then I don’t like to run.
In this case the bruising could have weakened the structures of the
tendon and with the pressure that they are put under racing, things could have
been made worse. It is disappointing but
thankfully good news in the end. At
least the owners have got some more air miles!
We all had a good cup of tea and a chat yesterday afternoon and Norman
& Bridget managed to see Casey lunged and on the walker. Photographs below of Andrew Thornton
schooling from Tuesday.
Kavanaghs Corner with Andrew Thornton on board
Zakatal (grey) with Kavanaghs Corner
Kavanaghs Corner
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