BRAVE SET TO BOW OUT Toby Balding`s stable stalwart Brave Tornado looks to have run his last race after suffering a serious injury at Newbury on Saturday. The 10-year-old was pulled up turning for home by jockey Barry Fenton and, when X-rayed after the race, was found to have sustained a condular fracture to his off-fore. The stable`s website reports: 'Our vet, Clive Hamblin, spent three hours on Monday putting four pins in and removing some broken pieces of bone. 'Brave Tornado got up from the operation OK (always a major worry) and at the moment all seems to be fine. 'It is unlikely that he will race again, there is only a one in ten chance that a horse with this injury will do so, and one has to remember his age and the fact that he has come back from two tendon injury problems already.' Brave Tornado won 10 races, his biggest success coming in the Grade Two Finesse Four Years Old Hurdle at Cheltenham in 1995.
