OUTSIDE of winning group races, the most pleasurable aspect of training racehorses is often resurrecting the career of a gifted one that has lost its way, reports The Age.It says: Mark Kavanagh is in such a position at Caulfield on Wednesday with his talented sprinter Undeniably, who is chasing his first victory in two years in the $125,000 Christmas Stakes. Kavanagh admitted that it had been a long road back for Undeniably, who three years ago appeared set to be contesting feature sprint races
OUTSIDE of winning group races, the most pleasurable aspect of training racehorses is often resurrecting the career of a gifted one that has lost its way, reports The Age.
It says: Mark Kavanagh is in such a position at Caulfield on Wednesday with his talented sprinter Undeniably, who is chasing his first victory in two years in the $125,000 Christmas Stakes.
Kavanagh admitted that it had been a long road back for Undeniably, who three years ago appeared set to be contesting feature sprint races after displaying extraordinary talent as a three-year-old. But a now infamous float trip from Kavanagh's Adelaide stables to his Melbourne base involving Undeniably and another promising horse, Shrapnel, was the start of a very forgettable episode.
''They contracted travel sickness and neither horse was ever the same again,'' Kavanagh said. We're hoping, however, in Undeniably's case, that all of the work in both states to get the horse somewhere near its best can pay off.
''We had to hit him with some very strong antibiotics at the time to curb the illness and he just didn't seem to respond. We gave him a few preparations but it was just a matter of trying to get him physically right and then we could start working on a racing career.''