Willie Cazals
Trish Dunell
Willie Cazals' brief New Zealand career has been ended by a suspensory ligament injury.
The Irish-bred galloper won the Gr.1 Livamol Classic at Hastings last time out in his fourth appearance from the Matamata stable of Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott.
"He would have suffered the injury in that race," O'Sullivan told The Informant. "We swam him for the first week afterwards and then the vet ran his eye over him and identified a suspensory ligament issue.
"It wasn't a major and our advice was that we could give him three or four months off and he'd be okay. But by the time he got back racing he would be 10, so we've done the decent thing and retired him."
The Irish-bred galloper won the Gr.1 Livamol Classic at Hastings last time out in his fourth appearance from the Matamata stable of Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott.
"He would have suffered the injury in that race," O'Sullivan told The Informant. "We swam him for the first week afterwards and then the vet ran his eye over him and identified a suspensory ligament issue.
"It wasn't a major and our advice was that we could give him three or four months off and he'd be okay. But by the time he got back racing he would be 10, so we've done the decent thing and retired him."