Dubai Equine Clinic

The dual St Leger winner Eldar Eldarov (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who fractured his neck after banging his head in the stalls at the start of the Dubai Gold Cup in March, is reported to be making encouraging progress at the Dubai Equine Clinic. The five-year-old, who was trained by Roger Varian for Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa's KHK Racing, sustained a complete, ventrally displaced fracture of the second cervical vertebrae in his neck and underwent stabilising surgery by Dr Barrie Grant of California and UK-based Dr Jonathan Anderson three days later. ...