WOMAN AS JOCKEY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 144, 20 June 1934, Page 11

WOMAN AS JOCKEY

POINT-TO-POINT WINNER

(Special from "Hurry On.") XEW PLYMOUTH, This Day

~: There was rmuchi-surprise at-the Taraliaki Hunt Club's-Poinktb-Point .Meeting on the KewPlyn^outli racecourse on Saturday- when Miss' E: Hicks' weighed out to ride her own':h6r.so-Ngareta in- the event fpr'-first-class.■hunters'.--" ■:*" .... .

- All •■'the other jridefs in. the race were liien, but this, did not .worry Mi6s Hicks one iota. The'r.e were, jnany.probably "who tlionght that she; iyas,;;appearing, rather foolish when Ngareta;tailed..the"field.very badly during the ■'first circuit, butif'this feeling did exist it was Quickly changed to one o£ astonishment scton after the final round was commenced,, as Miss Hicks, sent her mount along and began- gathering in the leaders. Without any- apparent trouble Ijvgareta took charge. half a mile from home, and, running bn-solifllyrh'e.-held off all challenges and won bya-lerigthi:

It was a really _ splendid 'performance, and there ■was a big ovation awaiting the lady rider as she brought'h'er horse ,back to the birdcage. The wiiiner is a faiv sort "of a hunter, and he was. successful in the Maiden Hunters' Steeplechase at the Taranaki Hunt Meeting last -September, beating among others Hauwai. who was second to Valpeeu in the recenf.'Great Northern.