Robalan out for season
New Zealand's biggest stake-winning pacer, Robakin. will not race again this season, ilis oft loreleg is to be tired today after which h< will be spelled for some weeks before starting a preparation for another tilt at the New Zealand Cup, a race he won in 1974. “lie hasn't broken Jown, but (here has been a little swelling in the leg." said his part-owner and trainer, Denis Nyhan. "If I kept Working him, there would he a chance of him going completely when the pressure really went on." Nyhan said that he had worked Rohalan on I ues-
day and he had paced with all his old verve and vigour. “While the swelling wasn't troubling him, it was there after he had worked and it was decided not to run any risks,” said Nyhan. “There is no chance of us breaking ’Robbie’ down,” he s: id. “II there’s the slightest sign of (rouble when he’s put hack nto work, he’ll be retired immediately. But he’s got so much natural ability and is so well in himself, that we feel it’s worthwhile giving him one more try and decided that he should he aimed at the New Zealand Cup.”
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34106, 19 March 1976, Page 2 (Supplement)
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