Extended break: Nash Rawiller. Photo: Mick Tsikas
SYDNEY'S premier jockey Nash Rawiller faces an extended break from riding after fracturing his right ankle in a trackwork mishap on Tuesday.
Rawiller was set to ride the John O'Shea-trained Recharging To Win in a 900-metre two-year-old trial at Rosehill when the horse lunged suddenly at the gates and pinned his ankle against the barriers.
Track staff who attended to the injured jockey noted that his ankle was swollen almost immediately after the incident and Rawiller was sent straight to hospital for X-rays where doctors soon confirmed that he had a fracture, with the recovery time still to be determined.
''Doctors are now conducting scans to determine the treatment,'' Racing NSW safety officer Maurice Logue said in a statement following the initial examination.
Rawiller had been suspended for careless riding for a period of six meetings at Rosehill last Saturday, with his ban to expire on December 28, but the fracture could mean the leading hoop spends a number of weeks on the sidelines.
■Peter Moody will be the sole Victorian representative in Sydney's group 2 Villiers Stakes at Warwick Farm on Saturday should he accept with either Highly Recommended or Shout Out Loud for the $175,000 event.
Shout Out Loud was a strong second-up winner at Caulfield earlier this month in the $100,000 Victoria Cup, with group 2 winner Highly Recommended working to the line in ninth place in the same race, some five lengths behind his stablemate.
Both horses will have to defy the Ron Quinton-trained Monton, with Quinton confident that his horse can create a piece of history and become the first horse to win back-to-back Villiers Stakes on Saturday.
Monton signalled he is on target for his Villiers defence with a brave second in the listed Festival Stakes, a race he won last year on his way to claiming the feature summer double.
No horse has won the Villiers twice since the race was first run in 1892 and Monton is the only horse from the 2011 edition to try his luck again this year.
''There might not have been many horses try it, but he's in great shape,'' Quinton said. ''He has come through his last run very, very well and I couldn't be happier with him.
''Naturally he's got a bit of weight but I guess he's earned it.''
Monton, who had his final piece of serious trackwork on Tuesday, will be ridden by Sam Clipperton.
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