BANNED HORSE-TRAINER
ASSUMED NAME USED FINE AT NEW PLYMOUTH (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Admitting a list of previous convictions for offences, including theft, forgery and receiving stolen property, Cecil Allan Crosby pleaded guilty before Mr. W. A. Woodward, S.M., in the Police Court to-day to a charge of being unlawfully on the New Plymouth racecourse at the Hunt Club’s meeting on September 2. He also admitted having been training horses under a license obtained in another name. He was convicted and fined £2.
The police said that Crosby, under the name of Mclntyre, had been disqualified for life by the Racing Conference and since had obtained another license under the name of McCormac
“How did you manage to have this license?” asked the magistrate. ‘‘l cannot leave horses alone,” replied the defendant. “I was born and brought up among them, and I will die among them.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 7
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149BANNED HORSE-TRAINER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 7
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