QUESTION from reader: Back in January 2020, my filly Ahlam (2018) (f) (Olympic Glory - Aksaray by Orpen) was due to go into pre-training in Ireland. The boarding stud noticed she was slightly lame behind.

The vet found bone chips in one hock, and then bone chips in the other hock. They operated to remove the chips, but on the last day of six weeks recovery (March 4th, 2020) Ahlam ran into a concrete wall at the vet clinic. She spent six months confined to her box at the boarding stud and never raced. I kept Ahlam for breeding.