Cox Plate favourite Atlantic Jewel will not race this spring because of a tendon problem

Atlantic Jewel won’t race this spring

Date

August 15, 2012 – 11:10AM

Chris Roots

Atlantic Jewel with trainer Mark Kavanagh. Photo: Paul Rovere

Cox Plate favourite Atlantic Jewel will not race this spring because of a tendon problem.

The unbeaten daughter of Fastnet Rock bumped her off-fore leg a couple of weeks ago and a lesion has formed on the leg resulting in trainer Mark Kavanagh aborting the spring preparation.

“Kav is really cut about it,” co-owner Laurie Macri told Fairfax. “It is a disaster in terms of the spring, but with time she will race again.

“It looks like a minimum of three months in the paddock.

“She is just one of those horses that can find a problem and we won’t be taking any risks with her.”

Atlantic Jewel is owned in partnership by Coolmore and has won all seven of her starts, including the Thousand Guineas and All-Aged Stakes.

Matthew Corban ‏@MatthewCorban

How many horses get injured in Mark Kavanghs stable?? come on!!! Whobegotyou,Maldivian and now Atlantic Jewel to name a fkn few

Remember Shocking??

 Another star injured for Kavangh, surely can’t be ‘Bad Luck’

 December Draw,Shocking,Whobegotyou,Maldivian and now Atlantic Jewel…what do they have in common?

Racing Victoria ‏@RacingInsider

Mark Kavanagh confident Atlantic Jewel will race again: “It may be the end of the spring but it’s not the end of the horse.”

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