Acclaimed champion South African Thoroughbred racing sire Jet Master died Tuesday (Nov. 15) from complications from surgery. The 17-year-old stallion had undergone implant surgery to relieve cervical spinal cord pressure three days earlier (Nov. 12), according to chief operating surgeon, and following the procedure his prognosis had been "guarded to good."

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Barrie Grant, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, independent surgical consultant specializing in "wobblers" (ataxic horses) in Bonsall, Calif., had flown out to Western Cape, South Africa, to lead the surgical team that performed the cervical fusion surgery on Jet Master using a "Seattle Slew" implant, the more technologically advanced version of the Bagby basket implant (a small basketlike device for fusing the vertebrae)

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