Manduro injured, out of the Arc

[NoChanceToDance]

Originally Posted by brockguy

The more I read about it, the more disappointed I get.

First it was Invasor this year now Manduro. He was just scary good and the way he put Dylan Thomas (on his favoured ground!!) et al to bed at Ascot was brilliant. Then to drop down to a mile and win a G1 and then go up to 12f to win the premier older Arc trial was the sign of a brilliantly adapable horse. I thought Falbrav was a brilliant horse for those reasons but this guys was better! I just wish we could have seen the best of him!

Very true, he was a superstar and the best horse in the world (there isn't a doubt in my mind). I wasn't convinced he'd stay 12 furlongs, but i was happily proved wrong on Sunday.

For a horse be just as good over a mile as he is over 12 furlongs, and all the trips inbetween is just amazing in the present day of racing.

Lets hope his progeny can turn out to be half as good, evan half as good as Manduro was they would still win a Gr1 in any country.

[brockguy]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

Lets hope his progeny can turn out to be half as good, evan half as good as Manduro was they would still win a Gr1 in any country.

A 65 rated horse winning a G1? maybe in India.. Sorry, i just had to to it!!

On a more serious note, it will be interesting over the next few years to see if Monsun can develop into a sire of sires..

[my miss storm cat]

excerpt, The Independent

Racing: Manduro pulls through operation
By Sue Montgomery

Published: 19 September 2007


Manduro, who will join Sheikh Mohammed's stallion roster in the spring, came through surgery to repair the fracture he suffered in winning the Prix Foy on Sunday without incident and was yesterday recovering in a French veterinary hospital, as comfortable as could be expected. "The operation took two hours," said John Ferguson, the Sheikh's racing manager, yesterday, "and he was up on his feet soon afterwards."

The five-year-old's injury and its treatment are, in veterinary terms, fairly routine. A small crack at the base of the right hind cannon caused a three-and-a-half inch sliver of bone to detach slightly. The long cannon bone is the equine equivalent of the five metatarsals between the toes and the heel in the human foot; in the horse evolution has fused them into one large bone and a tiny residual called the splint bone.

The fracture has now been stabilised with four screws, placed there by top Newmarket vet Ian Wright. "He has said he is pleased with the immediate outcome," added Ferguson. Manduro now has five months to recover before starting his second career, which should not, even allowing for the importance of strong hind legs for a stallion, be in any way compromised by his injury.