Newcastle jockey, Dale Spriggs and strapper Craig Lawler, were taken to hospital after a horse broke away in the parade yard at Scone races on Tuesday before the start of the fourth race, the Zizou @ Turannga Farm Maiden.
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Lawler was leading the top weight Mitch Force, with Spriggs in the saddle, when the horse took fright, dragged Lawler who ended up under the horse which then threw Spriggs.
Ambulance officers spent some time treating both men with Spriggs taken to Scone Hospital after breaking the fibula in his right leg while Lawler was taken in for observation.
The meeting was delayed for three quarters of an hour while waiting for an ambulance to come from Murrurundi to help transport the pair to hospital.
Mitch Force was unhurt but declared a late scratching.
The race was won by the Newcastle trained Magic Quiver, ridden by Spriggs’ son Blake, which led all the way to score impressively at only her second start for trainer Errol Moyle and a syndicate from Maitland which bred the mare.
“She is a nice mare and she is going to win some nice races,” Spriggs said.
Meanwhile Greg White from Invermien knew it was pointless sending the colt by Collate from the Dehere mare Cleanup to the yearling sales so he kept him.
Now a three-year-old gelding the horse known as Furbish resumed to cruise to an easy win in the Ranvet Benchmark 65 (1100m).
Furbish, trained at Wyong by Allan Denham, has now won three races from six starts, his first two in Brisbane at the start of the winter carnival.
“We knew Collate would never be a commercial sire down here so we did a deal with Burwood Stud in Queensland to stand him,” White said.
“We send a mare up to him each year and Furbish is her first foal.
“We have a Sebring yearling filly out of her which will probably go to the Easter sales while she is in foal to Redoute’s Choice.
“He did his two-year-old racing in Brisbane because being Queensland bred he was eligible for their QTIS bonuses.”
Denham does not have any special plans for Furbish yet.
“He is a nice horse with a lovely, long stride but he can go through his classes,” Denham said.
Greg Bennett and Luke Griffith both ended the meeting with winning doubles and none was more impressive than the Bennett trained King of England (Blake Spriggs) which cruised to an easy win in the Dream Ahead @ Emirates Maiden (1300m).
The English bred five-year-old import, owned by Waratah Stud, was having only his second start.
“He was an expensive yearling but from what I have been told had some problems and spent a lot of time in a box in England,” Bennett said.
“He is still learning and we will take baby steps with him at this stage but perhaps we will look to the autumn with him.”
Spriggs was mightily impressed with the win.
“He is a very nice horse, he will eventually win in Saturday company in town,” he said.