Nick Skelton’s Big Star, who finished third in the recent Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix in Estoril, has sustained a leg injury which will sideline him for at least a year.
The 11-year-old stallion was discovered to have torn his lower suspensory ligament following the competition in Estoril. He will need a considerable rehabilitation period. The horse sustained a similar injury in September 2013, which saw him out of action for nine months.
Skelton had hoped to take Big Star to the 2014 Alltech World Equestrian Games™ in France.
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