Trainer Ray Green has two goals for today: a winning return for New Zealand Cup victor Copy That and a couple of good meals.
Green won’t be at Alexandra Park to see Copy That start a red-hot favourite in race eight as he is back in hospital after losing 12kg in the last two weeks since being kicked by a horse.
His injuries from that incident meant Green needed an operation on his stomach but he was soon home and back at work, too early, as it turned out.
“I think I overdid things a bit,” says Green. “I didn’t eat or barely drink for eight days and was trying to keep an eye on the horses and I just got too weak.
“I lost 12kg and they have brought me back in here [Middlemore] to pump some fluids into me. I can eat a bit now so I am trying to get some good food into me so I can get my strength back. I am sure I will be fine once I do that.”