The most promising pacer at the present time Bitobliss has gone a miss with a broken back pastern, and has under gone surgery to help it repair. The Scott Steward trained and driven pacer broke his back pastern during the running of last weeks Victorian Cup and is most likely to be away from the race track for over a year.
Steward stated that during the running of the Victorian Cup that Bitobliss put in a rough stride about 1200m from home, and at first he might of jumped a mark on the track, but after the race the horse was found lame in the back pastern.
Bitobliss has been in fantastic form since running second to Lanercost in the Chariots Of Fire, this season he has won the Legends, Kilmore Cup and the Melton Plate, in total Bitobliss has had 25 life time starts for 15 wins, 5 seconds and 2 thirds , with his best winning mile being 1.53.2 and has also banked $235,170 in stakes.
I would like to quote Dr Kenneth P. Seeber, which sums up Bitobliss, " There are the underachievers with raw talent who never live up to expectations, Then there are those who have such low tolerance to pain that they let small injuries get the better of them and refuse to perform. Others go out and give a tremendous effort and shrug off both small and large injuries. Invariably, the great race horses are the ones who want to go out and do it no matter what. "
The last bit of this quote sums up Bitobliss, he still keep going and at one stage looked like he was going to be right in the finish.
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