An accident, presumably a hard kick, gave Silver Spoon a lame hip just before weaning time, but when X-rays showed nothing she was brought along with the rest of the
fillies; and in her
yearling trials in which she reeled off successive furlongs in: 11 3/5 and: 12 and won her own trial by five lengths on an off track, she showed Balding that, lame hip or no lame hip, she could run.