SMOKE RING OUT AGAIN
Another Leg Fracture i (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. Veterinary opinion is that the champion jumper, Smoke Ring, will not race again for 12 months, and perhaps never. He has a hairline fracture in his near foreleg, commencing from the apparentlymended fracture he suffered during the Balmoral Steeplechase at Ellerslie last May.
This was disclosed In X-rays taken by a Matamata veterinary surgeon this after noon.
The veterinarian, after inspecting the X-ray plates, advised a part-owner of the horse, Mr S. G. Jones, to either spell the horse for 12 months or authorise an immediate operation to remove small segments of bone near the break. Mr Jones said after a radiotelephone conference last night with the other partowner, Mr M. C. Conway, of California, that it had been decided to spell Smoke King for six or eight months andto have regular X-rays taken meanwhile.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31365, 10 May 1967, Page 5
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