LEADING IRISH HURDLER Go Native has been put down after breaking a leg on the gallops this morning, trainer Noel Meade confirmed.
Best remembered for winning the Supreme Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham in 2009, the nine-year-old looked to be coming back to his best this season following a long spell out of action with injury.
“He was just doing a very steady canter. I was stood about 100 yards away from him and all of a sudden I heard this almighty crack and he’d somehow broken his leg above the hock.
We are all completely devastated. It’s cruel blow for his owners and everyone in the yard.
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Following a flat win in Galway last month, Go Native ran over jumps for the first time in 31 months in the Grade 1 Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown last weekend, disputing the lead with eventual winner Hurricane Fly before crashing out at the last fence.
He showed no ill-effects from the injury afterwards and Meade considered sending him to Newcastle for next month’s Fighting Fifth Hurdle, a race he won in 2009.
'Cruel blow' as Go Native suffers fatal injury
LEADING IRISH HURDLER Go Native has been put down after breaking a leg on the gallops this morning, trainer Noel Meade confirmed.
Best remembered for winning the Supreme Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham in 2009, the nine-year-old looked to be coming back to his best this season following a long spell out of action with injury.
“We’re all in a state of shock at the moment,” Meade said (Sky Sports).
“He was just doing a very steady canter. I was stood about 100 yards away from him and all of a sudden I heard this almighty crack and he’d somehow broken his leg above the hock.
Following a flat win in Galway last month, Go Native ran over jumps for the first time in 31 months in the Grade 1 Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown last weekend, disputing the lead with eventual winner Hurricane Fly before crashing out at the last fence.
He showed no ill-effects from the injury afterwards and Meade considered sending him to Newcastle for next month’s Fighting Fifth Hurdle, a race he won in 2009.
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