{"id":219299,"date":"2025-10-23T02:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219299\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:55:15","slug":"globe-ruled-out-by-racing-victoria-stewards-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219299\/","title":{"rendered":"Globe ruled out by Racing Victoria stewards with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI know RV vets have called it, but there was absolutely no disagreement from myself,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat horse was not 100 per cent. Whilst it is disappointing for the owners … the other side of that, you could multiply that disappointment by about 50 if you were to run that horse, see him go no good in the Cox Plate and exasperate a small injury.<\/p>\n

\"Star<\/p>\n

Star jockey James McDonald aboard Via Sistina on Tuesday morning.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the correct decision. I was glad the decision was made. Absolutely the horse should not run.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trainer Chris Waller said on Tuesday morning that he was worried that a slowly run Cox Plate could prove the undoing of defending champion Via Sistina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut we\u2019ll ride our own race on Saturday. She\u2019s at her grand final. She needs to make her own luck, make her own sectionals times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Leading Saturday\u2019s Cox Plate field around the first bend and towards the back straight might fall to Light Infantry Man or three-year-old Nepotism.<\/p>\n

Sir Delius was ruled out of the Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup by Racing Victoria stewards, acting on on vets\u2019 advice, after CT scans, and a follow-up PET scan, revealed issues with the horse\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n

An independent panel of three vets found that Sir Delius was at \u201cheightened risk of injury\u201d if it continued to race this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI know RV vets have called it, but there was absolutely no disagreement from myself,\u201d Price said. \u201cThat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-219299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}