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Dan O Sullivan believes newly retired mare Affair To Remember is a classic example of what Racing Victoria is trying to achieve with its growing reliance on more complex scanning of horses for potential problems.
The Ballarat-based trainer said on Wednesday that a recent MRI scan on his Group 2 winner revealed issues that could have led to a catastrophic injury if she had come back into work.
Affair To Remember badly hurt a hoof in a veterinary accident in March but had overcome that injury, only for other potential issues to emerge from the MRI scan. We wouldn t have picked these things up unless we did an MRI, O Sullivan explained. Her x-rays weren t showing much and her action was fine but her MRI did show there was some things there that possibly saved us from a catastrophic injury down the track.
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Zac Spain says he is raring to go ahead of his return to the saddle at Geelong on Sunday after spending the past month on the sidelines.
The 24-year-old was outed after failing a breath test on the middle day of the Warrnambool May Racing Carnival. It s been a long month, but you live and learn, Spain admitted. It was a clip back to reality. The first person I called was Mick Price, who just said chin up and keep working hard and learn from it. I got away to Mooloolaba with Jordan Childs for a little bit to clear my head then was straight back into trackwork at Caulfield for Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr and Lloyd Kennewell.