Placid Victor out till next season
Special correspondent Auckland Placid Victor, the country’s top four-year-old pacer, will not race again this season. An injury to his off foreleg which he suffered in a scrimmage about 200 m from the finish of the Max Harvey Auckland Trotting Cup last Saturday proved more serious than at first thought. “The cut was very close to the suspensory and had to be stitched,” his trainer, Sandy Purdon, said.
“There has been a lot of filling in the leg.”
It would have been some time before Placid Victor was able to race. “Rather than take any risks,” said Purdon. “We decided to put him out and forget about racing him for the rest of the season. He has done enough, anyway/’
It is bad luck for Purdon and the horse’s owner, Mrs Lindy Wilson, because Placid Victor looked sure to increase his stake earnings substantially in the Lion four-year-old series at Alexandra Park next month. Two $lO,OOO mobilestart mile semi-finals will be held on March 8 to decide the field for the $BO,OOO final on Wednesday, March 12. The stake for the final will be increased to $160,000 if it is won by a semi-final winner in better than 1:57 and to $240,000 if a semi-final winner takes the final in better than 1:56. Placid Victor retires for the season with a record of six wins and a second from 11 attempts for $85,135 in stakes. In all, he has had 31 starts for 14 wins, two seconds, four
thirds and a fourth worth a total of $200,560. The Purdon stable will still have a strong contender, Frederick, for the Lion Carnival series. Frederick, which has a C 8 assessment, did not run at the Cup meeting because there were no suitable mobile-start races for him. He will return to racing tonight at Cambridge and looks sure to go well in the feature event, the Cambridge Classic. Frederick could compete in the InterDominion championships at Albion Park, Brisbane, in April. “Whether we continue with the payments,” Purdon said, “will depend to a large extent on his form. In any case, the owners are thinking of sending him to Australia to race."
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