King Of Pain had a bout of colic the night he was awarded Champion Male of KZN
Spring has arrived in the Cape and the racing has picked up here with one of our first feature races, the Settlers Trophy. It was good to see my old friend, Vaughan Marshall, win it.
Racing has been at Durbanville for a while now and whilst it is good, hard and competitive racing, it can get tiresome going to the same venue week in and week out. The track is holding up well and the course manager is doing a fantastic job.
There are plenty babies around Milnerton, which the trainers are getting ready for the CTS Ready to Run sale. There are some big ones, some small ones and certainly many hairy ones.
The guys are going to have to work hard to get the coats sleek and shiny in time for the big sale in a few weeks time. I am sure we will start seeing a huge difference as the weather starts to change.
I suppose it is the time of year but our stable has had a number of colics recently which, I have to say, is extremely rare for us. All have been small and nothing too bad, apart from our KZN Older Champion Male. He managed to get a serious bout of it on the night he won his award.
I am of course talking about King Of Pain. He lived up to his name and was in a lot of pain and had to undergo extensive colic surgery at Baker McVeigh’s Milnerton depot.
Thankfully, Dr Alisdair Cameron and his team did an outstanding job and whilst I am hugging an extremely large tree as I say this, all seems well with the boy and he seems to be on the road to recovery.
He has been the most magnificent patient, never once looking down in the dumps (which is more than I can say for myself). He has his head over the door and his ears pricked. Hopefully we will get him back in the yard today.
Sadly, it looks like it is going to be extremely tight to get him ready for the Cape summer season.
This is a huge shame as he was going to be our flag bearer.
We will have to look at other options and who knows; we might have a crack at the Carnival in Johannesburg with him. We shall have to sit down, get our heads around it and see how he recovers.
