Broken bones unlikely
NZPA-Reuter London
The Prix de I’Arc de Triomphe flop, Reference Point, may not be as badly hurt as was first feared. . Richard Greenwood, the veterinarian for Reference Point's trainer, Henry Cecil, arrived in Paris on Tuesday and diagnosed the colt had probably not broken any bones. It had been thought Reference Point might have cracked a bone above the knee as he staged his final effort In
Sunday’s race in Paris. Reference Point’s
owner Mr Louis Freedman explained: “It looks as though he had a splint in his foot which blew up into an abscess and the infection went up his leg. "The vet doesn’t think anything is broken but he hasn’t been able to have a closer look because there is no farrier. “He has a feeling the problem arose before or during the race. If the diagnosis is right it will be days rather than weeks before he returns from France.
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Press, 8 October 1987, Page 38
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