Gingernuts Progressing Well

Gingernuts | Trish Dunell

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Triple group 1 winner Gingernuts (NZ) (Iffraaj {GB}) has commenced the next phase of his recuperation having been transferred from the veterinary hospital in Werribee to a specialist farm nearby. Gingernuts had his near-fore pastern operated on two weeks ago after injuring it on the way to the start for the G1 Emirates S. at Flemington and paying tribute to the first class care he has received since then, a spokesperson for owners Te Akau Racing said via Twitter, “The team at Werribee was world-class and together with his owners, we will remain indebted to them always for helping save our special boy.” While the prognosis for Gingernuts is positive his recuperation time line is months rather than weeks according to Dr Chris Whitton, head of equine medicine and surgery at the University of Melbourne's Veterinary Hospital. “With most of these things, we would give them six months to allow adequate bone healing before we thought the horse was able to start taking more normal loads on the limb,” he told Racing.com.

Unfortunately there was bad news concerning Admire Deus (Jpn) (Admire Don {Jpn}) who has been euthanized after failing to recover from a serious breakdown in training when preparing for the G1 Caulfield Cup in October. The Darren Weir trained Japanese import never got to display his talent in Australia but he was a dual Group 2 winner in his native country.

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