{"id":333634,"date":"2026-03-17T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333634\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:55:13","slug":"injury-setback-for-muscle-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333634\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury setback for Muscle Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grand campaigner Muscle Mountain is set to be sidelined for the next few months after sustaining a leg injury.<\/p>\n

The multiple Group 1 winner and $1.3m earner was not feeling his usual self \u00a0after winning his fourth Fred Shaw Memorial New Zealand Trotting Championship at Addington on February 27.<\/p>\n

“The next day we went for a light jog and he felt a little off,” says co-trainer Greg Hope.<\/p>\n

“On Sunday he was a bit ginger as well so we scanned his leg and they found he had a hairline fracture in his cannon bone.”<\/p>\n

“It has not displaced.”<\/p>\n

A screw has since been inserted to aid his recovery .<\/p>\n

“He’ll have a month in the box and then we’ll get an x-ray,” says Hope.<\/p>\n

All going well he’ll then get back onto the water walker before he resumes full training.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The injury means the winner of 41 races will miss both next month’s $600,000 Trot Slot on Cambridge’s Night of Champions and the Group 1 Rowe Cup at Alexandra Park in May.<\/p>\n

Hope is confident that despite Muscle Mountain’s age (he’s nine) that this will not be a career-ending injury. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Like the true athlete he is he’ll be back.”<\/p>\n

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