A RASCALLY ACT.

Evening Star, Issue 4042, 9 February 1876, Page 2

A RASCALLY ACT.

What may without doubt be characterised as a villainous attempt to injure Mr H. Yeond’s horses, King Philip and Rory O’More, engaged in the approaching Dunedin Cup, was discovered this morning and happily frustrated. Mr Yeend’a stable is on the swamp road, and the gate through which he takes his horses on to the training ground is the only one at present used by trainers. The ditch here is crossed by a small bridge formed of open rails, each about four inches wide and two inches thick, and' therefore capable of supporting a very heavy weight. This morning Mr Yeend was, as usual, taking the two Cup horses out to exercise, and was fortunately not riding either, but walking in front of them, for on stepping on to the bridge one of the rails snapped in two, and he was thrown violently down, one leg of course going through the bridge. On inspecting-the broken rail, it was found to have been carefully chiselled almost entirely through, so that a horse in crossing the bridge would to a certainty have broken one of its logs. The place where the rail was tampered with was artfully covered over with bark, so that it would not attract attention. The matter has been put into the hands of the police, to whom the rail has been handed, and we trust that the scoundrel who has been guilty of such a contemptible act will be speedily discovered. The two horses are favorites for the Dunedin Cup, and that is probably with some people sufficient to lay them open to attempts to injure them.