Sacred Kingdom

[wit]

…quotes from SCMP after he was taken off plane in HK just before proposed 1am flight to Tokyo:

trainer Ricky Yiu: " I’m thankful that it didn’t happen on the flight and it didn’t happen if he was alone in his box during the night with nobody around. In either case, he would have been dead."

HKJC head of veterinary clinical services Dr Chris Riggs: "You don’t want to operate unless it’s absolutely necessary, but it was a typical twisted bowel. He’s a lot better now. However, I’ll be more comfortable after another 48 hours.

"It wasn’t necessary to remove anything during the surgery. There is some bruised intestine that we are keeping a close eye on, but it was reasonably straightforward for something like this."

[Adrian]

Thanks for the heads-up Wit…

[wit]

from SCMP:

"It’s a relief. He’s out of danger and he’s a tough boy – you wouldn’t know anything had happened to him at all," trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai said yesterday. "He’s walking around and looks bright again. He’ll stay in the hospital at Sha Tin until Monday then come back to my stables, but the vets are totally in charge of Sacred Kingdom’s feed for the time being."

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Yiu said the Jockey Club vets had indicated that Sacred Kingdom could quite possibly resume training as early as May but the gelding is likely to have a longer break from racing.

"They said eight to 10 weeks and he can start training but there is nothing for him anyway then so we’ll be looking at starting him racing again in the new season," the trainer said. "It’s probably better for him to have a longer break and get completely over it but they are actually quite optimistic that we will get the horse back. Hopefully, he can recover top form and we can target the international sprint again."

[Zenjah]

Good news about the champ – hope for a good recovery.

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