Henbit may race again next year
NZPA London The English trainer, Dick Hem, is hopeful that his Derby winner, Henbit, will be able to .race again next year. Henbit, the 7-1 second favourite, broke a cannon bone in his off foreleg 300 m from the finish, but held on to win the $340,000 first prize by three-quarters of a length. “There is a five-inch (13cm) crack in the bone, but there is no separation, Hern said last evening.
“It’s in a plaster cast, and he’ll have to stay in his box : for about three months.” Mrs Etty Plesch the colt’s owner, said she wanted to race him again as a four-year-old. I “He’s able to. get up and lie down, and he’s eating his food,” Hem said. “But he’s 1 in a fair amount of pain and 1 we’re having to give him ; pain-killing tablets.” ; It is estimated that Henbit’s stud value would at least i equal the SI4M placed on his i former stable companion [ Troy,.which won last year’s Derby. .
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