Little Miss Lily, who ran a gallant second to the hot-favourite Sahara Breeze in the $100,000 APG Gold Bullion three-year-old fillies final is partly owned by Kyabram’s clan of Ryan brothers - Peter, Brendan, Francis, Kevin and another brother Denis - and is trained by their cousin Patrick Ryan at Shepparton. Just one metre was the difference between a collect of $57,000 and $15,000 when a pacer with Kyabram ownership interests ran second at the Melton trots last Saturday night. Maximum temperatures have also taken a dive with no readings over 20✬ since May 2 when 20.2✬ was recorded. Temperatures plummeted with the change and on Sunday a chilly 2✬ was recorded, the lowest minimum this year. Overnight Friday, Kyabram received just 1.4mm to take the May total up to Monday to just 2mm. Kyabram missed most of the heavy rain that fell in southern areas in the state during the weekend. “After what’s happened and at my age (63) I don’t need to try and do it anymore.’’ Ky misses rainfall He is undergoing a rehabilitation program at the GV Base Hospital and is not quite sure when he will get the all clear to return home.īut has made up his mind about one thing - he’ll be handing in his licence to train gallopers. He said when he was first X-rayed the specialists thought he had multiple breaks and spinal damage until he pointed out they were old injuries from his days as a leading jockey.Ĭlements rode in eight Melbourne Cups and had eight Group 1 winners as well as being Victoria’s top apprentice jockey in 1979 after moving to Victoria from New Zealand. “But everything turned out good and I’m just so grateful for them.”Ĭlements was taken to the GV Base Hospital where he was diagnosed with a broken wrist and bleeding on the brain before being flown to Melbourne to get more expert medical care.
‘‘Mick almost ran over me when he started looking for me because I was in long grass and at first he didn’t know where I was,“ Clements said. Once gaining consciousness he found he was lying in thick grass unable to move.īut luckily he had his phone with him and was able to get an SOS to close friends Mick Blackmore and Pam Patten, who rushed to his property from Kyabram and summoned an ambulance. While working a galloper whom he had just purchased it suddenly baulked and threw him forward and he landed on his head. ‘‘I owe my life to them because if they hadn’t have turned up I’m sure I would have died,’’ Clements said.
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