NEW IN RASCALITY
A RACING SENSATION
PLATE LOADED WITH LEAD
■ SYDNEY, March 23.' Australian Jockey Club stewards are investigating a mystery associated with the discovery of an aluminium plate picked up at Moorefield course last .Wednesday after the Hawkesbury Club's Meeting. The plate was loaded with lead. \ . ... Experts state that excess weight on the feet of a racehorse is more likely to hamper speed than weight on its back. They also declare that a. horse with three, loaded shoes would certainly be off its balance and unable to do its best.
The stewards regard this discovery as something entirely new in racecourse rascality. The problem is to locate which of the unsuccessful. 98 competitors discarded the damning evidence as place-getters.are ruled out of the mystery.. .::.,. s ■ ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 13
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126NEW IN RASCALITY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 13
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