The Christmas present, as Bruce Wyborn puts it, is back under the tree again.<\/p>\n
But the 57-year-old is hoping the harness racing world will once again get to see the brilliance of his trotting superstar, Susan Is Her Name.<\/p>\n
Wyborn provided thetrots.com.au with an update on the injured mare, who he says suffered a central tarsal bone fracture while winning last month\u2019s Group 1 Macarthur Mile at Menangle.<\/p>\n
The owner-breeder said Susan Is Her Name spent a few days at the Ballarat Veterinary Clinic in late May for tests on her troublesome leg, and it was then discovered she had sustained a significant injury.<\/p>\n
Wyborn remains unsure if the five-year-old will require surgery, but hopes to find out more in discussions with trainer Emma Stewart in the coming days.<\/p>\n
Either way, Susan Is Her Name will require a few months of box rest before she is to resume light work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vet said that it wasn\u2019t the end if the fracture was displaced, but if it\u2019s just a fracture then it\u2019s only a time thing and she\u2019ll probably make a full recovery,\u201d Wyborn said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vet\u2019s opinion was that she\u2019d nearly done the other leg as well. There was a really deep shadow on the other back leg.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just putting the Christmas present away and we will try to get it out again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wyborn, who is based in Queensland, had been looking forward to Susan Is Her Name competing in the upcoming Inter Dominion Trotting Championship at Albion Park.<\/p>\n
She was one of the major fancies for the series after her win in the Macarthur Mile, where she inflicted Keayang Zahara\u2019s first career defeat at start 16.<\/p>\n
\u201cHardly any of the family have ever gone to see her and it would have been good to invite them all to Albion Park,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is so much support for me in Queensland – it\u2019s just unbelievable. When they found out she went amiss, everybody came up to me and said \u2018bad luck\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Susan Is Her Name has won 11 of 17 career starts for just over $218,000 in prizemoney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Christmas present, as Bruce Wyborn puts it, is back under the tree again. But the 57-year-old is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747519296153195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}