Ken Browne injured
PA Auckland Mr Ken Browne, the noted amateur rider whose mount Ascona, fell in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup on Saturday suffered a broken collarbone and two cracked ribs. “There’s nothing much wrong with an arm they suspected might be broken,” said his wife yesterday. “He’s feeling much better this afternoon.” Mrs Browne said her husband expected to resume riding'in two to three weeks.
“He’s got no thoughts of I retiring he might just have 'fewer rides.” Mr Browne’s other Hunt Cup runner. Regal Mink was in trouble at the same fence at which Ascona fell, the water j’ump. He needed six stitches to a cut on a doreleg, and he pulled the plate from his ope posite foot.
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