GLENFERRIE MAGIC OFF TRACK
Glenferrie Magic, who showed much early promise for Overport Lodge trainer Mark Jones, is unlikely to race again.
“At this stage she’s retired with problems in a hoof,” Mark said.
“She was probably our best one, but is too good to risk,” he said.
An embryo transfer by Christian Cullen from the three-year-old filly was taken off her in early November.
“She’ll go to the vets to be treated for another six-12 months,” Mark said.
“At this stage she’ll be a mother, which is frustrating. She was probably as good as any three-year-old filly this year but it always happens to the good ones,” he said.
“We’ll just have to find one to replace her, but it will be hard though.”
Mark says owner Peter Chambers was good about the setback, telling Mark he wanted to put the horse first above anything else.
“The vets say she could right in three months, or six months, but we’re not going to put her on the track if she’s not going to be 100 percent throughout her career,” he said.
The daughter of P Forty Seven and Time Flies raced only three times at two for a win and two seconds.
She was second to Dancing Diamonds in the Group Three Nevele R Stakes at the Cheviot meeting in March, then second again to Here We Go Again in the Listed $24,700 Caduceus Club Of Southland/ Nevele R Stud 2YO Fillies Pace at Invercagill.
Glenferrie Magic won her final start, a $14,000 Magness Benrow Siees Stakes Fillies Heat, at last start at Forbury in April, holding Alchemist and Here We Go Again, in a 1:59.1 mile rate for the 1700m.