Vets upbeat about Harchibald

VETS at the Troytown Hospital are happy with Harchibald’s progress following his operation on Sunday to remove a piece of birch from his leg.

Noel Meade’s stable star was anaesthetised when undergoing the operation after the seven-year-old was injured when finishing second to Brave Inca at Leopardstown last Thursday.

“The news is pretty good really and they seem very happy with him,” Meade told At The Races. “They have changed the dressing and were very happy with what they saw and the whole thing now is trying to keep infection away.