Reigning Cox Plate winner El Segundo is making a good recovery from a leg injury he suffered six months ago but won't race until next autumn says Colin Little.
Reigning Cox Plate winner El Segundo is making a good recovery from a leg injury he suffered six months ago but won't race until next autumn says trainer Colin Little.
El Segundo had stem-cell regeneration treatment on a superficial digital flexor tendon and is having another stint of rehabilitation on the aquaciser at Peter Clarke's property in northern Victoria.
Clarke is noted for his success of getting injured horses back to the track.
"He's (El Segundo) been at Peter Clarke's at Murchison for four days. He had eight weeks there earlier and he'll spend another eight weeks there before he comes back to me in September," Little said.
"Looking at his legs you cannot detect any difference at all.
"Normally with tendons there is some thickening, but both legs look exactly the same."
A winner of 12 races and more than $3.7 million in stakes, El Segundo hasn't raced since winning last year's Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley, 12 months after running the closest of seconds to Fields Of Omagh in the same race.
His other Group One wins are the 2005 Caulfield Stakes, 2006 Underwood Stakes and the 2007 C F Orr Stakes.
Meanwhile stablemate Blutigeroo is in pre-training at Warrnambool and is likely to be aimed at the Group Two Sandown Classic (2400m).
The winner of the 2007 Group One The BMW (2400m) at Rosehill as well as the Group Three Hobart Cup (2200m) earlier that year finished seventh in the Caulfield Cup and 19th in the Melbourne Cup last spring but hasn't raced since.
"The runs in the Cups knocked him around," Little said.
"I brought him back to get him ready for a Queensland winter campaign but I wasn't happy with him so I spelled him again.
"He was off the top in the Cups last spring. I will probably nominate him for them again but I think a race like the Sandown Classic will be more his go."作者:
pakkilo 時間: 29/7/2008 12:03 PM
