Zenyatta’s half-sister Eblouissante escapes serious injury scare
After her brilliant run to beat maidens at first asking, Zenyatta’s half-sister Eblouissante, was to make her second career start in an allowance race on 15 December, 2012, but got scratched from the race after banging herself in the receiving barn, but luckily the 3-year-old filly escaped any serious injury.
Bred in Kentucky by Maverick Productions, Eblouissante showed up the next day and she was looking fine morning after the incident, and trainer John Shirreffs will be looking for another start for her filly, who is expected to achieve as big as her half-sister, Zenyatta, and she showed that she is capable of it in her debut race.
"She's good this morning," said a relieved Shirreffs. "It was a contusion or abrasion. It took some hair off and it's bruised. We're treating it topically now. We iced it about four or five times (Saturday). She's walking good on it so we're going to take her out and train her and see how she handles it."
Eblouissante bruised her foot, and Shirreffs had the vet called over because she was refusing to put her foot down, and things got really worrying for the trainer when he tried to walk her and she wasn’t walking properly.
Shirreffs called in the vet to have a good look at her foot, and the next morning after some mild treatment she was feeling fine.
Prior to post position order, horses go to the receiving barn to get into the stalls, and the horses sometimes get anxious because other horses going out in front of them or before them, and then they push hard to get out of the door a little more than they should.
Shirreffs said that she didn’t force out of the door, she wanted to wiggle out which in result had her leaned a thousand pounds into her hip on the edge of the door, which resulted the injury, and she bruised her foot.
Eblouissante made her debut at Betfair Hollywood Park on 16 November, 2012, over two-turns going 1 1/16 miles and covered the distance in 1 minute and 45.27 seconds.
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