The John and Karen Parsons-trained 3yr-old will be out of action for 12 months after fracturing her knee.
The incident happened within the last 200m of her runner-up effort in Wingatui's listed 3yr-old fillies race earlier this month, Karen Parsons said.
Starvoia has put together a string of four placings in southern listed races in her past four starts.
Her efforts to place in the Gore, Dunedin and Southland Guineas and again at stakes level at Wingatui recently, can only be rivalled by her stablemate Residential.
Starvoia has been runner-up to Residential in all of those races, except the Gore Guineas in which Residential ran down the track.
The Parsons' camp will now play a waiting game and hope Starvoia's knee heals well so she can eventually resume training next year, Parsons said.
The loss of the Starvoia was the start of what turned out to be an extremely frustrating week for the Parsons' stable.
The trainers had Revelator in a strong position to go back to back in the Wyndham Cup, before Sunday's meeting was abandoned.
Parsons labelled the abandonment of the meeting, in which horses make their way into the birdcage for the first race before being sent back to their stables ``a disgrace''.
The abandonment had a huge cost - into the thousands of dollars - on the stable, she said.
The stable travels its horses to southern meetings two days in advance in order to get the best possible run from their charges.
The biggest expenses were staffing, transport and feed costs, she said.
There was an additional loss of their racehorses losing their fitness from travelling and then not having a race, too.
The trainer believes the situation could have been avoided with better monitoring of the track leading up to the meeting.
According to Racing Integrity General Manager Mike Godber, stewards were left with little choice but to abandon the meeting after rain fell on Sunday morning.
The track was inspected on Tuesday prior to the meeting and was declared safe, then inspected again on on race-day morning.
``On race day, the problem was that light rain commenced falling at about 9am.''
``If there had been no rain the track would have been fine.
``However, it is well established that the combination of a firm track and light rain produces a slippery surface.''
After that, an aerating machine was used to help alleviate the problem, but that was not successful.
``The ground hog machine is used to break up the top of a track so in theory it can help overcome the problem encountered at Wyndham.''
``There is always debate as to how effective this machinery is.
``There have been occasions when it has worked and others where it hasn't.''
- Jonny Turner
