Injury jeopardises Jacinto’s career
PA Palmerston North The career of the promising three-year-old galloper, Jacinto, has been jeopardised by injury. Last Saturday his Waikato trainer, Graeme Rogerson, was planning an Australian campaign for the horse aimed at the $200,000 Victoria Derby. Yesterday Jacinto was recovering at the Massey University veterinary clinic from a major knee operation which saw a screw inserted in a slab fracture in the third carpal bone. .. . , Tfte colt had been acclaimed a budding champion when he stormed home to win the $20,000 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes at
Te Rapa last Saturday. The joy of his owners and trainer was short-lived however, as he pulled up lame. Examination revealed the fractured bone. The radiologist and orthopaedic surgeon with the Massey clinic. Dr Mike O’Callaghan said the injury was not uncommon but was nevertheless serious. The screw inserted in the leg was likely to be left in permanently. Surgery had revealed that the damage to the joint was more serious than X-rays had indicated and the road back to fitness for the colt will be slow. - It is expected to be eight months before he resumes lightfwork.
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Press, 23 September 1983, Page 11
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