Superstar pacing mare The Orange Agent has been struck down by injury again.
But managing owner John Green says the last-start group one winner will be given every opportunity to make it back to the track next season.
The Orange Agent was found to have a hairline fracture in a fetlock after being scratchy in her work upon returning home from winning the Queen of the Pacific at Melton in Victoria last month.
Her effortless win there completed the mare's triple crown in Victoria while she also downed subsequent Jewels winner Piccadilly Princess in the group one Breeders Stakes at Addington in March as well as beating Smolda in the City Of Auckland Free-For-All.
That series of wins were graphic reminders of what a wonderful mare she is after a 14-month injury- enforced layoff starting early last year.