Ouija Board injury 'not career-threatening'

Trainer Ed Dunlop said today that the injury his star filly Ouija Board suffered at York last week was “not career-threatening at this stage”.

Last season’s Horse of the Year lost a shoe when finishing a disappointing seventh behind Azamour in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at the Royal meeting.

It was reported that she also had a quarter-crack problem.

Ouija Board appeared slightly lame after being reshod and subsequent X-rays and a bone scan revealed a small stress fracture to her near-fore cannonbone.

“We haven’t retired her. We are very far from it,” Dunlop told Racing UK. “She will be box-rested for a fortnight and then re-X-rayed and then we’ll make more of a plan about what we are going to do.

“It’s a stress fracture at the base of her cannonbone and is not career-threatening at this stage.

“Hopefully we’ll see her back later in the year. It will probably not be until the beginning of September, but who knows?

Ouija Board won both the English and Irish Oaks last season before going on to claim the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Lone Star Park.