Injury sidelines Raymond Bruce
By
DAVID McCARTHY
The Timaru jockey, Raymond Bruce, is ||urilikely to name Oamaru as his favourite track at any time in the future. || ■ A I fall ; from Knightstalker there ' last Monday resulted in ihini suffering a broken wrist which; will sideline Ihim for six weeks, i I A few years ago the
jockey was sidelined with a collapsed lung after a fall at the Oamaru track. !i. The present setback could not have come at a worse time for the rider who is enjoying his .best ever season. | ' I 1 Bruce has ridden 39 winners so far and.l with mounts like! Deerstalker and Star Fraction among his Easter {opportunities
the {total looked like being in 1 tfor substantial addition! [' while Gavin Butler (concussion) and Gary Williams; (broken bone in a hand) (knew their fates shortly after the Oamaru fall Bruce did not. (He rode Chiangmai in the following event. . | | “(When I went i for the whip . Il [knew something serious was wrong and by I ' I ■ li. : .-i 1' !
the end [ of the day the wrist had seized up," he said last; evening, j ip I ilt [could, be well Into May before Bruce returns to the saddle depending on progress the injury makes. Jj. [ ( l|.| |J I Butler . returned 'to Christchiirch on Tuesday with! no serious I after 'effects of his | fail! though Williams could |be | sidelined for some time! ( ' ij! ' li ' ■
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