Angst Has Trainer Swallowing Hard
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday January 20, 1994
The racing future of Angst is in serious doubt with the top-class filly being operated on today to correct a throat problem.
Angst will be operated on at the veterinary clinic at Sydney University, but veterinary surgeons rate her only a 60 per cent chance of returning to the racecourse.
"That 60 per cent chance is if she has to have only one operation but obviously if she needs more then that chance lessens," the filly's trainer Noel Mayfield-Smith said yesterday.
"I wouldn't like to see her race again unless she was showing us she was as good as she was," Mayfield-Smith added.
After two surprise defeats of Golden Slipper winner Bint Marscay in the Silver Shadow and Furious Stakes, Angst proved herself to be the best filly around last spring when collecting the Tea Rose Stakes and Group 1 Flight Stakes.
Those four wins gave Angst the "Princess Series" and netted her connections a $200,000 bonus.
Angst's condition is similar to that of the former top sprinter Show County, though that colt successfully returned to racing.
Mayfield-Smith said the filly had returned in magnificent condition and had built up since her last campaign, with the trainer looking at further success against her own sex in the AJC Oaks or against older horses in the $1 million AJC Doncaster Handicap.
Mayfield-Smith received some good news at Canterbury yesterday with Extended Edition in the Petersham Handicap over 1,200m.
Extended Edition, by Handy Proverb, the Victoria Derby winner trained by Brian Mayfield-Smith, provided the middle leg of the winning treble achieved by the former Queensland-based jockey Glenn Boss.
Mayfield-Smith is confident that Extended Edition will develop into a promising three-year-old but hasn't ruled out races such as the AJC Sires'Produce and Champagne Stakes at Randwick over the Easter Carnival.
Boss was also successful on the Bill Mitchell-trained filly Does She Bite in the Marrickville Handicap, over 1,200m, and Apache Line in the Steyne Hotel Superfecta, over 1,280m.
Does She Bite provided John Bradshaw with a welcome return to the winners'circle, with the owner-breeder having cut down his racing interests since selling the majority of his racing stock to the Ingham Brothers.
Included in the group of 24 horses sold to the Inghams was offspring of Sasha, a mare that provided Bradshaw with many successes including the Group 1 winning mare Shaybisc and Group 2 winner Asarka.
Bradshaw bred and raced the filly's dam Cobra Belle, a metropolitan winner trained by Brian Mayfield-Smith.
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