VICTORIAN A.T. CLUB'S SPRING MEETING.
THE ;qXIJLPiELD. GUP. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A <\ JOOEEY. ONE HORSE KILLiSP ;AND SEVER^LiSERiOllSIii; TOURED. GREAT. AMQNGST THE SPECTATORS., (BY ELECTRIC TKtErfllXpH^-OOPYRiaHT.) (BOIT?B?8 TBL^jQBAMB.;) i: Mklbourk'b^ Saturday. Fortjr-pne horses started for this event. After. "~'.j|<MJ?«u distance had been' gone, TooToo,waß Been to fallj andin * moment Sardius, JTonr :Bro?»q,i Sirocco, Prince Imperial, Winchester, Lord Exeter, Hilltop, Claptrap, Despot, LuckyHit, Kingship, and Lord Wilton, came to the (ground in jone cbnfused mass, fourteen "horses m " all *lVavinjj fallen. Nicholson, who was riding Lord Exeter, wai killed, and Oracknell and several other jockeys were seriously injured. The horse Tom Brown was also killed. Blink Bonny, Britisher, Country Boy, Coriolanus, Dirk flattterick, Grace Darling, Impure, Lantern, Lesbia, Madcap, Minerva, Mozart, Plausible, Real Jam, Signor, St. Lawrence, The Andes, Wara, Velocipede, Yellow Hammer, Anglesey,. Black Diamond, Gratitude, ManY Lonisef^Visionr-Welcome Jack n and, Israelite, . were: thus left to continue the race. Grace' DWrilng%irew wafted aßdjwon -byJvalf^a;{lengthjxßStisber secpnd,, >,nd, /v PoMolanuß third. Time, Winchester led for ( /^ome distance,, and "if as m a good, ppsition wn'en the accident' occurred. J Great excitement' preyajle'd amongithe spectators when the horses fell.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1484, 19 October 1885, Page 4
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186VICTORIAN A.T. CLUB'S SPRING MEETING. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1484, 19 October 1885, Page 4
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