Hot Ice’s racing future in doubt

Press, 28 December 1989, Page 21

Hot Ice’s racing future in doubt

By

DAVID McCARTHY

The top-class galloper, Hot Ice, broke down during the running of the Timaru Cup yesterday. Hot Ice, which has a history of unsoundness going back to his three-year-old days, apparently suffered an injury to his. off-front tendon, about 150 m from the finish. Hot Ice, a winner at Wairio on Saturday, when he defeated the Timaru Cup winner, Regent Diamond, may not race again. He won 14 races for his breeder and part-owner, Barney McCahill, and it

was through the association with Hot Ice, which was sent to Paddy Busuttin for beach training after suffering a breakdown earlier in his career, that McCahill and Busuttin became associated with Castletown, the New Zealand Derby winner on Tuesday. Luscious Lady, the favourite for the Kokatahi Band Maiden, broke down in the pastern shortly before the post and was pulled up. Luscious Lady’s injury is to be X-rayed and she is likely to be saved for breeding. Chamelon gave northern rider Terry Moseley his first win since moving south to assist the Pitman stable over

the summer circuit. Chamelon won the Kokatahi Maiden easily. Her trainer, Michael Pitman, bought her for a five-figure sum, on the recommendation of northern rider Peter Johnson, at a Ready to Run sale. Pitman is considering a tilt at the New Zealand Oaks with Chamelon, but first she will tackle the Blue Riband at Waikouaiti. Raymond Bruce increased his season’s tally to 44, the same as that of the leading trainer, Graeme Rogerson, when he guided Four By Two to victory in the Crothall Maiden, leaving Bruce a clear leader in the rider’s

premiership. Four By Two is part-owned by Eddie Thompson, of Timaru, who bought her privately from the Wanganui studmaster, John Corcoran, as a youngster. Four By Two is trained by Jan Hay, who prepared Morgan Page for Mr Thompson and George Clough before the Balmerino mare was sent north to Peter Hurdle. Morgan Page suffered further damage to a tendon in the north and, after failing to cycle in time to be served by Kingdom Bay on Tuesday, will return south. She will visit Kingdom Bay next season.