Sofia Rosa
Darryl Sherer
Stephen Marsh will give his Gr.1 Australian Oaks winner Sofia Rosa a few extra days to get over her traumatic post-race ordeal.
The Cambridge trainer is at a loss to understand how a Sydney vet could have got the dosage of a pre-flight insect spray so wrong that his filly and fellow Kiwis Valley Girl and Capella had to be taken straight to a veterinary clinic.
"The fillies got terribly agitated and it basically burned them so we had to hose them off – it was shocking," he said.
Under the circumstances, Sofia Rosa would remain in Sydney until Monday before she returned home.
"After what she's gone through I won't put her through the stress of travel straight away and she will fly home on Monday, all going well."
The Cambridge trainer is at a loss to understand how a Sydney vet could have got the dosage of a pre-flight insect spray so wrong that his filly and fellow Kiwis Valley Girl and Capella had to be taken straight to a veterinary clinic.
"The fillies got terribly agitated and it basically burned them so we had to hose them off – it was shocking," he said.
Under the circumstances, Sofia Rosa would remain in Sydney until Monday before she returned home.
"After what she's gone through I won't put her through the stress of travel straight away and she will fly home on Monday, all going well."