\u201cI think I am looking at at least six to eight weeks out of the saddle but I won\u2019t really know until I see the surgeon.\u201d<\/p>\n
McNab leads the national premiership by six wins, with 17 victories for the season, and is the regular rider of perennial Group 1 contender La Crique, who is set to race next in the Howden Mile at Te Rapa on September 27. She will now almost certainly need a new jockey for that race, and the Group 1 Livamol at Ellerslie on October 18.<\/p>\n
McNab would have been in hot demand for many of the leading chances in a range of black-type races over the spring and a best-case scenario, with the timeframe he was thinking of tonight, would be a return for just before New Zealand Cup week, which hosts the 1000 and 2000 Guineas.<\/p>\n
It is McNab\u2019s second major injury in the last 18 months after a back injury suffered in a Te Rapa race in 2024 cost him his chance of defending the New Zealand jockey\u2019s premiership he had won the previous two seasons.<\/p>\n
McNab was the favourite to win that premiership again this season until Tuesday\u2019s accident, with TAB bookies quickly closing the premiership market.<\/p>\n
He can, of course, still win the premiership but is now going to miss possibly the next two months and lost momentum, future rides and possbly enormous income.<\/p>\n
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think I am looking at at least six to eight weeks out of the saddle but I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,6028,8500,14576,14568,12815,14569,14571,14575,14573,5494,14574,111,43,139,69,14572,3512,1306,14570,213,6921,14577,14578],"class_list":["post-12011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-champion","tag-ellerslie","tag-fracturing","tag-horse","tag-jockey","tag-jockeys","tag-kick","tag-majority","tag-mcnab","tag-michael","tag-miss","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-premiershipleading","tag-racing","tag-schedule","tag-shattering","tag-sports","tag-spring","tag-trials","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}