LIMERICK'S INJURY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 13

LIMERICK'S INJURY.

NOT AS SERIOUS AS TWO YEARS AGO. j MAY GO TO V.R.C. MEETING. (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Limerick's heel revealed blood after the Craven Plate. His trainer, F. D. Jones, states that the trouble has not extended to the frog, and is hardly as serious as two years ago. Limerick will have three days* rest and a dose of physic, and then, if able to gallop satisfactorily, may possibly be sent to Melbourne for the V.R.C. carnival, but cer- ! tainly not to the Caulfield meeting.

LIMERICK FOR HOME.

CRAVEN" PLATTE FAVOURITE BREAKS DOWN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Wireless information was received from Sydney to-night that F. D. Jones, the trainer of Limerick, states that the Limond gelding is suffering from a badly i "cracked" heel, and he will return home by the boat leaving pa Friday without' doing any more racing^-- * ' "*? r The announcer- also fitted limerick started favourite in the'ChravenPlate, and after disputing the lead for a. mile Be failed to eoitio 011 in the straight. Amounis secured a goodnm,on the rails and won rode Amounis and E. Bartle was on Prince Humphrey. Limerick finished: fourtKkJ--";? kA gal« hlew- at Rsadwick all day and the weather was turning out in fur coats instead of spring frocks.

THE PRINCE.

iU SET FOR PLEMDTGTON. •- October 3. - . Mr. G. G. Macindoe announces that he has definitely decided to take Prince Humphrey to Melbourne for the Victoria Club's gyinp -i.n« . •