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Danny Beasley: Victorian Inquiries; Panzer Division; Gai Waterhouse; Marple Miss; Voilier Resumes; Jim Cassidy; Opie Bosson; Scott Westover; Sairyn Fawke; Joe Moreira; Chris Symons

DANNY BEASLEY SUSPENDED

Danny Beasley’s great winning run since he returned to riding in Sydney has been tempered by a short suspension.

Beasley was suspended at Wyong on Thursday after pleaded guilty to a charge of careless riding on his mount Multitude in the third race.

Beasley was charged with causing Heavenly Mum to lose its running in the last 200m.

Beasley has been suspended from July 5 until July 11, ruling him out of the Grafton Cup carnival on July 8 and 9.

VICTORIAN STEWARDS INQUIRIES

Racing Victoria stewards have confirmed that a prohibited substance has been detected in a sample collected from the Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra-trained Epic Saga after winning the Tatura Cup on April 4.

A post-race urine sample taken from Epic Saga was found to contain the bronchodilator Clenbuterol which is a prohibited substance.

Ellerton and Zahra were informed on May 4 of the irregularity which has now been confirmed by a second referee with stewards to continue their investigation.

Racing Victoria stewards have also opened another race day treatment investigation after ordering the scratching of two horses trained by Brian Jenkins at the Pakenham meeting on Thursday.

Jenkins is best-known as the trainer of 1998 Melbourne Cup winner Jezabeel.

It is understood Crown Halo and Seguro were treated with the commonly used Vicks VapoRub, which contains the banned substances camphor and menthol.

LONG SPELL FOR PANZER DIVISION

Classy three-year-old Panzer Division won’t be back for a spring campaign due to the serious knee injury he suffered in March.

The Paul Messara-trained Panzer Division suffered a stress fracture of the knee in the Hobartville Stakes.

He will require a much longer break than his stablemates Scissor Kick and Rekindled Power and won’t be seen again until next year.

Messara, who has reduced his team to only five horses in work due to his workload as general manager of Arrowfield Stud, has Scissor Kick and Rekindled Power about to start their spring preparations.

Scissor Kick was spelled after he jarred up in the Doomben 10,000 and will be aimed at feature races in Melbourne late in the spring.

WATERHOUSE STARS IN WORK

An impressive list of Gai Waterhouse-trained stars are starting to light up the early mornings at Randwick as they begin their spring preparations.

Waterhouse’s Group One winners Vancouver, Pornichet, Cosmic Endeavour and Amanpour are all back in work and starting to build up their workloads.

Waterhouse also has the impressive former Kiwi filly Bohemian Lily in work and has added the classy Group winner Arabian Gold to her team after she had a change of ownership for $800,000 at the National Sale at the Gold Coast in May.

Waterhouse’s Brisbane carnival team of Najoom, Harlem River and The Offer will spell in Queensland for two weeks before returning to Randwick.

One horse Waterhouse has lost without a start under her care is Bold Sniper, the quality import owned The Queen.

Bold Sniper has been transferred to David Hayes and Tom Dabernig and will race in the royal colours this spring.

Bold Sniper arrived in Australia early this year with three wins and five placings from 11 starts in the UK.

LEES WAITS A WEEK

The Kris Lees-trained filly Marple Miss has been scratched from the Rosehill meeting on Saturday after a spike in her temperature was detected on Thursday.

“We’ll wait and run her at Rosehill on Saturday week,” Lees said.

Marple Miss, successful in four of her eight starts, hasn’t started since finishing sixth to Sabatini in the G2 Angus Armanasco (1400m) at Caulfield on February 28.

She had won three races in succession at Wyong, Randwick and Rosehill in January and February before the interstate trip.

VOILIER MAKES EARLY RETURN

Voilier, the Gary Nickson-trained youngster who has held his own against some of the season’s best two-year-olds, is to have one more start as a juvenile.

Nickson has Voilier set to resume over 1100m at Rosehill on July 18, a race that will have the rising three-year-old primed with a fitness edge for the Rosebud and Run to the Rose in August.

CASSIDY CHECKS OUT SPRING PROSPECTS

Jim Cassidy is currently in New Zealand, but it’s hardly a pleasure trip home for the Kiwi champion.

OK, Jim and his wife Vicki are obviously taking time to catch up with family and friends while he takes his annual winter break from riding.

But Cassidy admitted he is using the trip home to check out several NZ-trained horses that he could be riding at the Sydney and Melbourne spring carnivals, an indication he is as keen as ever to add more Group wins to his stellar career record.

Cassidy reported that he has made a good recovery from the back injury he suffered last month and is gearing up for a return to riding in Sydney in the first week of the new season.

Mongolian Khan’s jockey Opie Bosson is also taking a break from race riding during the winter but says he is delighted with the condition of the Derby winner after riding him in trackwork last week.

“He seems to have grown a bit but isn’t too heavy which is great,” said Bosson. “He felt good when I rode him in pacework. It’s early days yet but he’s looking good.”

SCOTT WESTOVER RETIRES

A combination of increasing weight and emotional stress has forced young Darwin jockey Scott Westover into an early retirement from race riding.

Westover made a brave return to riding following the death of his girlfriend Caitlin Forrest in a race fall last October but the 22-year-old was overcome when another good friend Amy Herrmann suffered serious injuries in a trial fall at Morphettville last week.

Forrest, his partner for three years, died in a fall at Murray Bridge.

“My weight has been a massive problem since Caitlin passed,” Westover said when announcing he was retiring.

“I lost the motivation and now Amy has brought back memories.”

Herrmann, 27, remains in an induced coma in a serious but stable condition in the intensive care unit in Royal Adelaide Hospital although her family issued an encouraging report on her condition on Thursday.

Amy’s father Peter Herrmann said doctors had reduced her level of sedation and she has reacted well, being responsive to her doctors and family.

FAWKE RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL

Queensland jockey Sairyn Fawke was released from Royal Brisbane Hospital on Thursday after his lucky escape from serious injury in last Saturday’s Rockhampton Cup.

Fawke was airlifted to Brisbane after the three horse for scans after he suffered concussion and other injuries in the three-horse fall.

MOREIRA SER$VES WHIP SUSPENSION

Joe Moreira will be missing from the Hong Kong scene next week.

Moreira has to serve a seven day suspension he picked up at Royal Ascot last week for breaching the local whip rules when he rode Medicean Man in the G1 King’s Stand Stakes.

British Horseracing Authority stewards suspended Moreira from June 30 until July 7.

SLOW RECOVERY FOR SYMONS

Victorian jockey Chris Symons is facing a long recovery from the injuries he suffered in a recent fall at Bendigo.

He is recuperating at home with vertebrae and shoulder blade fractures that can’t be repaired by surgery.