Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse\u2019s Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot is under specialist vet treatment after a stingray attack when swimming at a Brisbane beach on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The four-year-old, a $5.9 million stake-earner, sustained near foreleg injuries and has been ruled out of a race against the world\u2019s best sprinters at England\u2019s Royal Ascot next month.<\/p>\n
She was rushed to a Brisbane vet clinic for specialist care and is being kept under close observation. Connections have flagged the powerful bay is likely to be retired from racing.<\/p>\n
Lady Of Camelot, regularly given ocean wading and swimming, was being prepared for Brisbane\u2019s $1.5 million Doomben 10,000 (1200m) on Saturday when the stingray struck.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur mare\u2019s recovery and well-being are absolute priorities,\u201d owner Sir Owen Glenn said. \u201cShe has been scratched from the Doomben Ten Thousand and her Royal Ascot trip booking is cancelled. There\u2019ll be an early decision on her racing future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian Bott, who is Waterhouse\u2019s co-trainer, said Lady Of Camelot was exercising in shallows at Brisbane\u2019s Nudgee Beach when a sting ray attacked.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe sustained wounds near joints and was immediately treated by our stable vet,\u201d Bott said. \u201cWe then swiftly took her to a specialist clinic where she remains under thorough attention, as vets watch for after-effects and guard against infection.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lady Of Camelot ran a close second in Melbourne\u2019s 2024 Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes before she finished fast at Sydney\u2019s Rosehill track to win Australia\u2019s best two-year-old race, the Golden Slipper. She is a highly valued breeding prospect.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Perth carnival star Overpass\u2019s connections have confirmed he will tackle the King Charles 111 Stakes at Royal Ascot next month. Trained by Sydney-based Bjorn Baker, the sprinter has won two Quokkas and two Winterbottom Stakes on WA raids.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis travelling experience should be an asset when he is flown to England,\u201d Baker said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
In contrast, other WA carnival winner Rey Magnerio needs a spell. Melbourne trainer Robbie Griffiths said the gelding, a Gold Rush winner and Quokka runner-up on Perth visits this season, had developed leg trouble.<\/p>\n
+ Class gallopers Smooth Chino and Western Empire have drawn barriers two and three, respectively, in the $200,000 Belmont Sprint at Saturday\u2019s Belmont Park re-opening.<\/p>\n
Austin Galati retains the mount on Smooth Chino, a winner at seven of nine starts. Western Empire, to race first-up on Saturday, has earned $3.4 million.<\/p>\n
+ Top WA provincial jockey Tash Faifhfull received a nine-day suspension for causing interference in race three at Kalgoorlie on Sunday. Rosie Mahony (10 days) and Rocky Cheung (14 days) were also hit with careless riding suspensions at WA country meetings on the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse\u2019s Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot is under specialist vet treatment after a stingray…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,2325,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-9936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brisbane","8":"tag-brisbane","9":"tag-racing","10":"tag-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}