New shoe for Lord Module

Press, 14 November 1977, Page 21

New shoe for Lord Module

A new type of shoe is to be fitted to Lord Module in the hope that it will help take the pressure off his quarter crack and enable him to start in next Saturday’s New' Zealand Derby Stakes.

Lord Module has been inspected by the visiting American, Delvin Miller, who said he had used the shoe successfully after having discovered it in Sweden. “I’m not holding out high hopes of his being able to start in the Derby, but if the new shoe works there is a chance he’ll be there,” said the colt’s owner-trainer, Cecil Devine. Earlier Miller drove his namesake. Delvin Miller, at Jack Litten’s track. A two-year-old colt by Lopez Hanover from the dam of the Trotting Stakes winner, Blackmiller, he is one of the most talented young horses Litten has trained.

Miller, too. was delighted with the colt. “He’s the most perfect natural young trotter I’ve ever driven,” he said.

Locarno, brilliant winner of the First Riccarton Stakes, will be missing from the Derby. He has pulled a muscle high on a hind leg and will have to be spelled for at least three weeks, according to his trainerdriver, Robin Butt.

“He must have done it after the race on Tuesday as he was very sore the next day,” said Butt.

Jamaica violence Fifteen persons have been shot dead in the last four days in Jamaica as the number of violent crimes in the island continues to rise. The Government has announced measures to control violence which over the last month has reached peaks similar to those which led to the imposition of a state of emergency last year.—Kingston.