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Lee Freedman said Mummify appeared to have broken his nearside sesamoid in two places, but he was whisked off quickly after some quick treatment and he hoped the gelding could be saved.
 
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How sad.....I hope some of the millions he's earned can be used to save him and he can live a long, restful life in the paddock.
 
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Happy Birthday, Remote Tiger.

I reckon you might have gone okay there today.

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Sorry, PREnders. Hopeless from me today.

richards42 said:
4 SUM ONE WHO GOT 400-1 ABOUT LEICA FALCON SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I'M SPEWING WITH THE RIDE OF CRAIG WILLIAMS. SAT BACK LAST THEN TRIED TO GO UP THE INSIDE. THEN WENT BACK AND LEFT THE RUN TO LATE.
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Yeah, your horse was strategically unlucky, IMO, Lounder. Craig Williams, a handy second tier jockey, appeared to pull the horse. He'll retain the ride, won't he? ;)

My results in the race were Portland Singa and Hollow Bullet so it didn't hurt me much. I think the Falcon might get a better ride in the Melbourne Cup- from the same rider.
 
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Exactly my thoughts, Crystal. They've won over $5,000,000 with Mummify after today and should spend as much as possible to save him.
 
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I should say Rosy.........yep, the owners should spend every dollar necessary to save Mummify. The gelding could spend his remaining years down at Lee Freedman's beautiful property.
 
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had candy vale one out in quaddie - got the other three legs. having a shocking run three weeks in a row now i have got three legs. oh well always next week. still got makybe diva-leica falcon going for $14500 return
 
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In the end i backed Lachlan River, Eye Popper & Natural Blitz each way. Did the japanese jockey take a camera with him? He made Shane Dye look like a rail hugger. It was strange watching Eye Popper in the straight then i saw the fluro yellow and thought Natural Blitz was a hope and all i got was second. There was a lot of crowding near the fence behind the first three, will be interesting to see who was hard done by. For everyone who had a sweep the horse that finished last was Vouvray well she was always gunna do something :hihi
 
R.I.P. Mummify

Mummify had to be put down this morning. Thanks for the memories of a true, honest champion with a slight Tiger connection. Sympathy to Leon. :'(
 
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One of the main owners of Mummify said on Sport 927 around 7.30am that Mummify was still being treated but things looked very grim. If he has gone, it's with great sorrow we learn that fact, Rosy.
 
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It was a late announcement at the end of the 3LO 7.45 news that they'd been advised Mummify had just been out down. :'(
 
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As I've posted earlier, Don Raphael was very unlucky in the Metrop. IMO, a certainty beaten. Losing runners in the Metrop have a great record in the cups.

He's been 300 odd to one for the MC everywhere all week. Naturally, with Railings winning the CC the Metrop form is starting to look good and he's been trimmed to 125/1 on Doublebet. No betting up on Eskander yet.

Still 300/1 on Sportsbet. If you want the spec, you won't get long. I'm going again.
 
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Darren Gauci has been suspended for 14 race meetings for rough riding on El Segunda yesterday.
 
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rosy23 said:
Mummify had to be put down this morning. Thanks for the memories of a true, honest champion with a slight Tiger connection. Sympathy to Leon. :'(
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:'( :'( That's very sad news Rosy. RIP Mummify.
 
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Stipes' report on the Caulfield Cup

Race 8 – CARLTON DRAUGHT CAULFIELD CUP - 2400 metres: P. Moody Trainer of Vouvray (NZ) advised the Stewards that it was their intention to ride the mare in a more forward position today. Vouvray was ridden accordingly.

Stewards permitted Kerrin McEvoy to be substituted for Nash Rawiller on Razkalla (USA). Connections agreed to pay N. Rawiller a winning or losing fee.

Sir Dex knuckled on jumping away.

Eye Popper was slow to begin.

D. Gauci rider of El Segundo was found guilty of a charge of careless riding, the careless riding being that he permitted his mount to shift in running down the straight the first time when not sufficiently clear of Carte Diamond resulting in that horse having to be checked. D. Gauci’s license to ride was suspended from midnight 15th October 2005 to expire midnight 28th October 2005. Stewards took into account D. Gauci’s good race riding record.

Approaching the winning post the first time, Irish Darling threw its head up when being eased off the heels of Portland Singa (NZ), Railings which was following Irish Darling also got its head up, shifted in and hampered Carte Diamond.

Turning out of the straight, Vouvray (NZ) which was racing to the outside of Natural Blitz clipped its heels and almost fell when Natural Blitz shifted out slightly.

Shortly after this incident, Natural Blitz shifted out to avoid the heels of Lachlan River, hampered Vouvray (NZ) and Razkalla.

Also turning out of the straight, Hollow Bullet got its head up when being restrained.

Approaching the 2000 metres, Sir Dex which was over racing shifted out to avoid the heels of Hollow Bullet and bumped Lachlan River (NZ).

In the early part of the straight, Vouvray (NZ) which was giving ground was hampered when El Segundo shifted in to improve its position on the inside of Portland Singa (NZ).

Approaching the winning post, Lachlan River (NZ) which was weakening had to be checked off the heels of Hollow Bullet which was taken in by Portland Singa which was laying in under pressure.

Sir Dex and Lachlan River (NZ) over raced in the middle stages of the race.

Near the 900 metres, Leica Falcon had to be eased off the heels of Carte Diamond.

Near the 500 metres, Razkalla (USA)which was weakening, had to be eased when tightened for room between Hollow Bullet which shifted out slightly and Vouvray (NZ) which was taken in by Eye Popper (S. Fujita), which improved on the outside of Vouvray (NZ) and shifted in. Lachlan River which was following Razkalla (USA) shifted in to avoid those geldings’ heels across the running of Sir Dex which had to be checked severely. Leica Falcon which was following Sir Dex was hampered and had to shift out abruptly to avoid Sir Dex’s heels, El Segundo then shifted out to avoid the heels of Razkalla resulting in Demerger being inconvenienced. The Stewards will notify S. Fujita to make a far greater effort to keep his mount straight in future.

Leica Falcon which was making ground had to shift to the outside to improve his position in the straight.

At the entrance to the straight, Wild Iris was tightened slightly between Dizelle and Plastered.

The Stewards adjourned an inquiry into Wild Iris having to be checked running down the straight on the first occasion to a date to be fixed.

http://www.racingvictoria.net.au/app/stewards_reports/report.php?report_id=778
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Note the absence of significant interference to the Falcon. The stuff about checked was an excuse for a dead ride. No investigation.
 
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THEY buried Mummify standing up, like the great stallion Sir Tristram yesterday.

They buried him next to another of Australian racing's most loved horses, Schillaci. They remembered the good times and they got drunk as lords.

"If it was a matter of money, the owners would have spent anything to save him," trainer Lee Freedman said at an Irish wake for the horse. "But there was just nothing anyone could do."

One of racing's greatest money-earners, Mummify ran one of the races of his life to finish third in Saturday's Caulfield's Cup.

But the race ended tragically, when the 2003 winner pulled up with a serious leg injury. Jockey Danny Nikolic, who rode Mummify to victory two years ago, said he heard a sound like "a cannon shot" as the horse's leg snapped.

Freedman insisted vets try to save the horse, but he was put down yesterday and buried alongside former top sprinter Schillaci at the St Ives training property of Lee Freedman's brother Anthony on the Mornington Peninsula, where the horse was trained early in his career.

An underrated galloper, Mummify figured in the top 10 prizemoney winners behind such equine luminaries as Northerly, Sunline and Makybe Diva, with career earnings of more than $5 million.

After leading for most of the race, he was denied a second Caulfield Cup success by Sydney stayer Railings and Japanese visitor Eye Popper in a driving finish in which the judge needed the aid of the photo-finish to separate the trio. Mummify's sesamoid bones in the near foreleg gave in about 80 metres after the winning post.

Mummify was taken by horse ambulance to the veterinary clinic behind the racecourse and was stabilised with an injection to dull any pain. There was a chance the horse could be saved if blood circulation through the fetlock joint and into the hoof were not interrupted.
"An incision was made and the flow of blood through the vessels in that area had been compromised," Freedman said. "He might have lived for a month or two but in the end he would have had to have been put down."

Freedman praised the six-year-old gelding and said he would be sorely missed. "He's the epitome of a courageous horse: he never shirked the task," he said.

"We'd have given up the $200,000 he received for running third in the Cup if it meant saving him. Money wasn't an object.

"It was always a fear in the back of my mind that he could suffer an injury in this leg because it had been misshaped. While he never had a day's trouble with it, that was probably because we had managed it."

Freedman declared Mummify's run the bravest of his career, having carried 57kg and crossed from the second widest barrier to lead with a lap to go.

"I think if he'd have drawn a better barrier and not had to expend so much energy under his big weight early, he still might have won," he said.

Former AFL player and part-owner Leon Cameron said Mummify had been a joy and had never given up.

"He lived in the shadow of Makybe Diva, who is such a freak, but I think the Caulfield Cup showed what a great horse he was," Cameron said.

"He was to have run in next Saturday's Cox Plate. The owners will go there together and look on with envy.

"We hope we might find another horse half as good as he was. Horses like Mummify just don't come along every day."

http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,16938623-32343,00.html
 
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Thanks for posting that, Crystal. Very sad ending for a wonderful galloper, but he was treated with the greatest respect.
 
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