BURIAL AT HOME
Late H. Mackinnon LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CANCELLED The funeral arrangements for the late 11. Mackinnon, who was killed in the race accident at Trentham on Saturday, and was to have been buried at Karon yesterday afternoon, were cancelled. The boy’s parents, who reside at Redfern. Sydney, cabled expressing a wish that the body be sent to Sydney, and it will be shipped on the Mamma, leaving Wellington on Friday. Several hundred people congregated outside the mortuary chapel in Taranaki Street to pay their last respects; and numerous wreaths were sent by representatives of sporting bodies, and friends of deceased. At about 2 p.m. it was announced that cabled instructions had been received from the lad’s parents to forward the remains to Sydney for interment there. Instead of dispersing, most of those present filed through the chapel past the casket, as a final mark of respect, many of the women falling on their knees to repeat a brief prayer for the soul of the departed (who was a Roman Catholic). Wreaths were sent by the Wellington Racing Club. S. Higgs, Riccarton, P. C. Webb, Rowley Hatch. Charles Duncan, T. R. George and boys, H. Telford, H. and C. Pritchard, and J. W. Lowe, L. J. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Jones, “A Mother.” Miss Williams and Mrs. Walker. Riccarton Trainers, C. C. McCarthy and jockeys at Riccarton, and “An Aussie Mother.” Mackinnon’s parents reside at No. db Thurlow Street, Redfern, Sydney. THE DUKE’S CUP For Gentlemen Riders MARTON FIRST VENUE His Royal Highness the Duke *of Gloucester has donated a cup to the New Zealand Racing Conference, to be competed for annually in a race to be held in alternate years in the North and South Islands. The race is to be a flat race of not less distance than one mile and a quarter, and the risers in such race must be gentlemen riders. At the express wish of his Royal Highness the first club to hold the race shall be the Marton Jockey Club, on whose course he rode Black Man Inst New Year’s Day. The New Zealand Racing Conference may add such further conditions as it thinks fit. The president of the New Zealand Conference (Mr. J. S. McLeod) has acknowledged this gracious act of his Royal Highness by telegram as follows: — “The New Zealand Racing Conference respectfully tenders to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester its sincere thanks for his generous and thoughtful gift of a challenge cup to be contested each year in a race confined to amateur riders. The conference is deeply sensible of the high honour conferred on racing by this gracious act of his Royal Highness, and together with the racing clubs will constantly aim to ensure the fruition of the desire prompting the gift that the turf, in New Zealand may be strengthened in its most sporting aspect.- The conference also respectfully bids farewell to his Royal Highness and wishes him a safe and happy voyage home.” FIRST FALL FATAL Forbra Breaks Fetlock # By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, January 27. Forbra, winner of the 1932 Grand National Steeplechase, and who was awarded 10.12, fifth top-weight, in this year’s event, was running third in a steeplechase at Newbury yesterday, when he stumbled on landing at the last fence and broke a fetlock, resulting in his destruction later. Forbra is believed to have been the only jumper of renown never previously to have fallen in a race. Thrice he jumped the National course faultlessly, which even Golden Miller has not achieved.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 13
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