Bolt back

Star trotter Bolt For Brilliance (Muscle Hill) is back in work for northern harness racing trainer Tony Herlihy. 

“He’s been back for six to seven weeks and everything is a 100% at this stage, so we’ll keep our fingers crossed,” he said. 

The gelding last raced at Geelong on the 3rd of December finishing second in an Interdominion heat to Just Believe (Orlando Vici). He was found to be lame after the run and was diagnosed as a fractured petal bone. 

“It was as good a fracture as you could get. Some go right back to the joint. His didn’t.” 

Raced by Suzanne Herlihy, Peter Hailes, Doug Donaldson and Mrs J M Mathews, Bolt For Brilliance had to be boxed for five months to aid the repair process. 

“He was scanned before he came back into work and everything seemed perfect.”  

From just forty six starts, Bolt For Brilliance has won twenty races including three Group One’s – The Rowe Cup, Four Year Old Ruby and Two Year Old Ruby.  

Herlihy expects the six year old gelding to return to the workouts in early September. 

“I’m looking right at him and he’s smiling at me so he’s happy.” 

by Bruce Stewart, for Harnesslink