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Jockey Tom Marquand, who sustained a concussion after parting ways with his mount in Australia on Saturday, underwent shoulder surgery as a result of the incident, as well on Wednesday.

Marquand was forceably removed from his mount in the A$2-million Inglis Millennium due to interference from another rider, and was originally diagnosed with just a concussion. Subsequent MRI scans revealed a dislocated sternoclavicular joint.

“It has basically dislocated backwards, so I have to go for an operation today [Wednesday] to get it wired back in,” Marquand said in a video posted to Instagram.

“I will probably spend a week here now in Australia just because I can't fly straight after having an operation.

“Then the plan will be to come back to England and go through my rehab there and hope that I can get back in action by the time the last couple of days of The Championships are on and all being well, head back down to Sydney.”

Marquand's wife, fellow jockey Hollie Doyle, is also on the sidelines after dislocating her elbow last month, and she is set to have surgery next week.

He added, “Hollie is having a bit of a shocker as well, off with her elbow and she is going under the knife I think early next week.

“We will be in rehab and recuperation together and be a right pair so at least we've got two arms between us. It's obviously not ideal what's going on, but I think we can both count ourselves pretty lucky in the circumstances.”

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by TDNAus/NZ

The Annabel Neasham-trained Learning To Fly (Aus) (Justify) turned heads when she broke her maiden in the G3 Widden S. last month and she more than justified that hype when overcoming a wide barrier to win the Inglis Millennium (Listed Restricted) at Sydney's Randwick Race Course on Saturday.

After breaking cleanly from gate 15, the filly was settled on the outside by Chad Schofield, who was happy to sit on the wide outside. As the field rounded the turn, Learning To Fly showed she was aptly named, storming down the outside to swoop the A$2-million honours and come away with a 0.27l win over Blanc De Blanc (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}). Kundalini (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) ran another solid race to finish third (video).

Kia Ora paid A$900,000 for the filly at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale last year when she was offered by Coolmore, who retained a share in the youngster.

“To the staff's credit back at the farm, they earmarked this filly from day one as the best of all of them and from what we've seen so far, she looks extremely special and possibly the filly of her time,” Coolmore's Tom Magnier said.

“What Annabel has done with her is nothing short of extraordinary. She's weaved her magic and turned this filly into the star she is today. “She's in the [G1 Longines Golden] Slipper [A$4.92 million, Rosehill, Mar. 18] now, with some of this Inglis prize money counting toward qualification so we'll set out a path now toward there and hopefully become the first Millennium winner to win the Slipper.”

Kia Ora's Shane Wright said he always thought the filly had star quality.

“We knew she was an exceptional filly so while you never expect to see that, it's always a delight to sit back and watch a win like that with a very, very special filly,” Wright said. “When we drew barrier 19 I think everybody was a bit flat, but once we looked at things and decided to run, we knew we'd need a great ride by Chad [Schofield] and while he was obviously wide, he always had cover and just let the filly come into the race.

“At the top of the straight, she was still a way off them but I always thought deep down she was good enough to round them up and it's amazing to see her do it.”

In winning the Millennium, Learning To Fly earned her connections a new Ferrari, as part of a Coolmore promotion at last year's yearling sales for the first progeny of Justify to one of 16 races they earmarked, and the A$2 million-event was one of them.

“The keys are in my pocket at the moment but we'll work out the next few days who gets the car,” Wright said.

Learning To Fly is out of Group 3 winner Ennis Hill (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who is herself a daughter of Hips Don't Lie (NZ) (Stravinsky), the dam of Listed scorer Lake Geneva (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and Acrobat (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who won the 2020 Inglis Nursery and now stands at Coolmore Stud.

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