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Cheltenham Trials Day- Saturday

It looked like a hind leg. Fingers crossed he's done something like slipped a tendon off his hock which is survivable (Teeton Mill did that) rather than a fracture.

At least there is a veterinary hospital on site now.
 
Possible pelvic fracture - early days to speculate on prognosis. Depends on if it's affected anything else internally. I have seen them recover well from such an injury and equally lost a horse with one.
 
Could alternatively be a fractured femur (bone at the top which is harder to diagnose)
My dad would have been saying "stick a hand up his a*se to have a feel" which was the traditional way to feel for any bone movement. He actually advised my vet to do so after he had his serious accident 8 years ago (this was ten days before he passed away and was dipping in and out of dementia. Standing on the backstep in his PJs, but he could still remember how to test for a pelvic fracture!

I'm sure the facilities at the racecourse hospital are second to none now though and all sorts of X-ray machines and scanners.
 
If he had pulled him due to the ground it would have been greeted with the usual shite about how he didnt want his horses to have a race etc, instead of what it would have been which would be looking after the welfare of hischarge.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but how many are wishing now that he had pulled SG out of the race....
 
Just back from a late lunch and they’ve found a bloody great hole on the course - the groundsman chap pushed his arm in it up to shoulder. How it hasn’t caused catastrophe during the afternoon God knows. Then to find the horrible news about Sir Gino. Jeepers.
 

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