Sprint Sensation Ferdinand Boy's Career In The Balance

VICTORIAN sprint sensation Ferdinand Boy has injured a back muscle and will be sidelined for several months.

But in good news for broodbitch owners, the son of Fernando Bale and Nayla Swift will have semen drawn and it will be available for purchase.

The dog's trainer David Geall, whose wife Rose owns him, reported today the dog had torn his back muscle in a recent trial.

“We don't normally trial our race dogs,” said David.

“A dog like him, with 98 starts, I could count on one hand the number of times he had trialled. But, that's what happened.”

Outstanding!! Ferdinand Boy takes out the Shepparton Cup Final in a track record time of 24.752 ?? pic.twitter.com/lgUKW4kzN6

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Geall said he and wife Rose had knocked back substantial overseas offers to buy the dog for stud duties. “But, he was always going to have a home here for life,” he said.

“We may try to get him back, maybe for a Pink Diamond Veterans, but if he does not come back, then it does not matter to us.”

He is an iron dog which has raced 98 times for 51 wins and 25 placings earning $596,000 in stakes.

He is a multiple Shepparton track record breaker.

But, he is also the winner of the G2 Shepparton Cup, Ballarat Derby, G2 Ballarat Cup, G2 Healesville Cup, Horizon, G2 Warrnambool Cup and Pink Diamond Sprint.

It was Ferdinand Boy taking out the G2 Healesville Cup Final @HVLGreys ? pic.twitter.com/TbCBTFoRLY

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He has been second in the G2 Devonport Chase and The Arrow.

And he has been third in the G1 Hobart 1000, Pink Diamond Shortcourse, and a finalist in the G2 Traralgon Cup, G2 Shepparton Cup and G3 Goulburn Cup.

He is bred on an almost identical cross as G1 Melbourne Cup winners Koblenz and My Redeemer the latter one of the best stud dogs in the country.

He will stand at a fee of $1855.