Filly recovering
By
J. J. BOYCE
A tetanus-stricken Fireglow was close to death last week-end but yesterday she was making good progress along the recovery road. “We were ready to wave her goodbye last Sunday morning, but now we’ve got her eating oats and chaff and grass and we hope to be able to get her out of her box for a bit of a walk tomorrow,” the filly’s Riccarton trainer, Bob Register, said yesterday. Fireglow won a double for Mrs Register at the Nelson
Jockey Club’s meeting, but did not run with anything like the same dash at Riccarton at Easter, probably because she was feeling the early effects of the ailment which was diagnosed as tetanus about a fortnight ago. Mr and Mrs Register’s hopes for their filly’s recovery were raised when they learned of the success story of Miracle Jack, which had tetanus as a yearling, but is now racing successfully both as a sprinter and a jumper from Bill Hillis’s Riverton stable.
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Press, 14 May 1981, Page 22
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