{"id":296872,"date":"2025-07-27T21:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296872\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:40:16","slug":"mick-on-monday-te-rapa-tumble-leaves-ace-apprentice-sidelined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296872\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick On Monday: Te Rapa tumble leaves ace apprentice sidelined"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a very rare ruling, Ribkraka was disqualified from his second placing and Okubo was docked his riding fee. <\/p>\n

While all four apprentice jockeys were taken to Waikato Hospital, it is Lawson-Carroll who has already required surgery and will need more.<\/p>\n

Lawson-Carroll\u2019s boss Shaun Clotworthy updated LoveRacing on the 20-year-old\u2019s condition yesterday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s in Waikato Hospital and had an operation on his femur last night, they were a bit worried that it may be cutting off some blood circulation so they operated on that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe he has to have an operation on his hip and his shoulder, so he\u2019s got a couple more to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spoken to him this morning and he\u2019s pretty positive, his partner is up there with him now and [Clotworthy\u2019s wife] Emma\u2019s been there today, and I think we\u2019ll go in after the races today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t had a chance to talk to the surgeons yet, but when I go in, I\u2019ll hopefully be able to have a chat and see what sort of rehabilitation and recovery he\u2019ll be doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a fit young man, with a positive attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Zealand Jockeys\u2019 Association spokesman Andrew Lacy shared further updates on Strawbridge, Goyaram and Hassman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been in contact with each of the jockeys, and all three are doing well under the circumstances,\u201d Lacy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cRihaan has a pretty sore lower back at the moment and will be having an X-ray on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHayley has a significant haematoma on her left lower leg, thankfully there were no breaks, but she has remained in hospital for close observation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she continues to improve, she may be discharged this afternoon [Sunday], but is unsure of recovery time at this stage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAshlee is very battered and bruised, but her scans and X-rays have all come back clear. She will be heading back to the fracture clinic next week to double check, but it is looking positive at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Racing at Te Aroha yesterday was on the whole tamer, even with six jumps races, with Leitrim Lad winning the $40,000 Te Aroha Veterinary Services Cup for trainer Eamonn Green and jockey Emily Farr.<\/p>\n

Very promising jumper Billy Boy survived a bad landing at the second fence to win his first-ever steeplechase and remain unbeaten in four starts over fences.<\/p>\n

His trainer Jo Rathbone confirmed Billy Boy will not head to Riccarton for the Grand National meeting, which starts this Saturday, instead returning to Te Aroha for the Great New Zealand meeting in late September and probably having a flat run in between to keep ticking over.<\/p>\n

Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the <\/b>Herald<\/b> as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the <\/b>Herald<\/b>\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a very rare ruling, Ribkraka was disqualified from his second placing and Okubo was docked his riding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[110012,9360,10911,14381,7766,53655,21021,1327,22128,254,1071,36299,21029,110013,79,15967,110011,16,15,7765,25053],"class_list":{"0":"post-296872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-ace","9":"tag-apprentice","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-could","12":"tag-have","13":"tag-leaves","14":"tag-mick","15":"tag-monday","16":"tag-much","17":"tag-on","18":"tag-racing","19":"tag-rapa","20":"tag-saturday","21":"tag-sidelined","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-te","24":"tag-tumble","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-what","28":"tag-worse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114927371727683494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296872","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=296872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}