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has he been retired?
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I've got a feeling he might have been. Certainly had a lot of problems. Great horse though!
Hard as nails.
BY RACINGPOST.COM STAFF 1:30PM 29 JAN 2010
MIGHTY MAN will miss the remainder of the season after fracturing his near-fore sesamoid. The fracture ison the same leg as the one he injured at Punchestown in 2007, though it is an unrelated injury.
The Henry Daly-trained ten-year-0ld has won both his chase starts, the second at Huntingdon this week, and had been a 16-1 shot for theRSA Chase at Cheltenham.
The trainer told Racing UK that his stable star was undergoing surgery. He said: "He had a tiny little nick after the race but we just felt it this morning.
"We put him in a box, took him off to the vets and they called me back and told me he'd fractured his sesamoid. We're confident it is not life threatening or career threatening - the only problem is he's already ten."
A Grade 1-winning hurdler, Mighty Man broke down in the Champion Stayers' Hurdle at Punchestown in April 2007, two weeks after bolting up in the Long Distance Hurdle at Aintree.
There, he had emphatically turned the tables on Inglis Drever, who had beaten him narrowly in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at Cheltenham. As a result he was officially rated the best hurdler of the season.
Daly said he understood it would take six months for the fracture to fuse.
MIGHTY MAN will miss the remainder of the season after fracturing his near-fore sesamoid. The fracture ison the same leg as the one he injured at Punchestown in 2007, though it is an unrelated injury.
The Henry Daly-trained ten-year-0ld has won both his chase starts, the second at Huntingdon this week, and had been a 16-1 shot for theRSA Chase at Cheltenham.
The trainer told Racing UK that his stable star was undergoing surgery. He said: "He had a tiny little nick after the race but we just felt it this morning.
"We put him in a box, took him off to the vets and they called me back and told me he'd fractured his sesamoid. We're confident it is not life threatening or career threatening - the only problem is he's already ten."
A Grade 1-winning hurdler, Mighty Man broke down in the Champion Stayers' Hurdle at Punchestown in April 2007, two weeks after bolting up in the Long Distance Hurdle at Aintree.
There, he had emphatically turned the tables on Inglis Drever, who had beaten him narrowly in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at Cheltenham. As a result he was officially rated the best hurdler of the season.
Daly said he understood it would take six months for the fracture to fuse.
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