Frangelico injured

Press, 30 December 1988, Page 26

Frangelico injured

By

JEFF SCOTT

The open class race mare, Frangelico, has gone amiss and will be out of action for a couple of months at least. “She has almost bowed a tendon in her off-front leg,” said Tim Brosnan, whose brother, Richard, trained the mare, latterly at Pukekohe. “We tried to patch her up for the Breeders’ Stakes at Addington but it’s no use, we would only end up breaking her down completely,” said Brosnan. Frangelico knocked the tendon during last month’s New Zealand Cup meeting at Addington. The injury flared up again after she received a check and struck herself in the Thames Cup earlier this month. “She’s due to be sent down to her owner, Hamish McPherson (of Pleas-

ant point), next week, and they may try to get her ready for the Easter Cup,” said Brosnan. “But it doesn’t look good when they start getting tendon injuries,” he added. Frangelico, a seven-year-old mare by Golden Fulla, is scheduled to join Terry May’s Meth ven stable when she is recommissioned. The Brosnan stables — new facilities at Pukekohe — have not yet been fully completed and they are sharing part of Peter Davis’s stables until its completion. “There is a lot of culling out of our stock to be done in the near future. There are some that look alright and they’ve all got a bit of breeding,” Tim said of the stock the Brosnans are handling for their employers, the National Bloodstock Corporation.