Smoke Ring Lame
"The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND. Smoke Ring has been lame since he ran in the Peach Jumpers* Flat at Te Rapa on Saturday and his winter programme may not be continued. A part-owner, Mr S. G. Jones, said it might be two or three days before the extent of the trouble was known. Smoke Ring pulled up sore after the Peach Jumpers* Flat, in which his running was questioned by the judicial committee. Before he could leave the course his lame leg, the off foreleg, had to be bandaged. Mr Jones said that although there seemed to be no heat in the leg. Smoke Ring was lame when trotting. The leg is the one in which Smoke Ring broke down while contesting the Balmoral Steeplechase at Ellerslie last May. The present soreness may be a recurrence of the old trouble or a result of a knock Smoke Ring might have received when he became crowded nearing the straight. The inquiry into Smoke Ring's running was adjourned until Saturday morning when the committee will watch a film of the race.
Smoke Ring finished tenth of 18 after being well behind for the first six furlongs. His next race was to have been the Waikato Steeplechase on Saturday week, but it now seems unlikely he will run.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31364, 9 May 1967, Page 4
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