[1] Ray Warwick with horse Pattison. Photo by Tayler Strong. Pattisun, the six-win trotter, has undergone surgery on a hind suspensory ligament and he is unlikely to race again this season.
The 6yr-old, trained at Waikouaiti by Andrew Faulks, has been returned to his owner, Ray Warwick, to recuperate after being boxed for the past month following surgery.
"He has to go out for two months but we will probably leave him out and get him ready for next season," Faulks said.
Pattisun won his last start at Oamaru on September 18, but driver Dexter Dunn told his connections that the horse was not trotting fluently and felt something was amiss.
"We had the leg scanned and a problem showed up and he went to Invercargill for an operation," Faulks said.
Pattisun had been placed in his other two starts this season.
• Miss Moonlite is in the process of being inseminated by Bettor's Delight.
"We will keep her in work for mares races," Andrew Stuart, her Rangiora trainer, said. Miss Moonlite has won seven races, including one at Melton in August.
Her stablemate, Mr Chrome, has been entered for the Geraldine Cup on Saturday.
Stuart said he was pleased with the effort of Mr Chrome to finish fourth to Sammy Maguire in a fast-run 2600m free-for-all at Addington last Friday. Mr Chrome ran third to Minty Mellow and Joshua Bromac in the Geraldine Cup 12 months ago.
• Chianti became the seventh winner from as many foals to race out of Abbey Rose when successful at Oamaru on Saturday.
Chianti is owned and trained at Balcairn by John and Karen Parsons, who have been associated with other winners out of Abbey Rose - Young Prince, Chromatic, Forever Yours, Roseraire and Artiface.
They recently sold Roseraire to the United States after she won them nine races. They sold Anna Livia (nine wins), another of the progeny of Abbey Rose, to clients of the stable of David and Catherine Butt as a youngster.
Chromatic won four races before he broke a leg.
Armbro Overlord, the fifth foal of Abbey Rose, had an accident after he qualified and did not race.
John and Karen are breeding from Forever Yours, a Dream Away mare who won her only start by seven lengths at Motukarara in 2008. Her racing career was curtailed after she was kicked by another horse and broke a hind splint bone. She has just produced a colt by Mach Three.
Artiface has won seven from 15 starts. The last-start runner-up to Smiling Shard in the Kaikoura Cup is headed back to Auckland for his next start.
Abbey Rose foaled a colt by Bettor's Delight yesterday and she is returning to that sire.
John and Karen bought Abbey Rose with Young Prince (her first foal) at foot after answering an advertisement in the NZ Harness Racing Weekly.
"She was our type, a lovely big mare, like a thoroughbred and Doug Stiven, who I always consulted on pedigree, said she had the blood," Karen Parsons recalled.
Abbey Rose qualified but she did not race. She is a half-sister by Sandman Hanover to Nutwood, who won eight races in New Zealand and took a record of 1.50.6 in the United States. They are out of Brave Lady, by Lumber Dream (a leading sire of broodmares).
Chianti, a 3yr-old filly by Mach Three having her fourth start, will now be spelled. She is a sister to Artiface.
• Smoken Up has drawn one in his bid to win the Miracle Mile for the second successive year at Menangle on Saturday night.
Smoken Up won the race last year from barrier four in 1.50.3.
The field with barrier draw for the $A500,000 Miracle Mile: Smoken Up (1), Lisagain (2), Im Themightyquinn (3), Garnet River (4), Karloo Mick (5), Mega Alexander (6), Mr Feelgood (7), Raglan (8), Terror To Love (9), Franco Jamar (10) fr. Emergencies: Garnet River, Mega Alexander.
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