COURSE ACCIDENT
EFFORT TO STOP HORSE. . OFFICIAL INJURED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 8. The clerk of the course, Air It. A. Ferguson, was seriously injured during tho running of the last race at the New Zealand Aletropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting at Addington yesterday. He was taken to hospital with serious head injuries. Late this afternoon Mr Ferguson had recovered consciousness, but was still on the seriously ill list. A fracture of the skull is suspected. When the field had travelled two and a half furlongs in the International Handicap Village Guy broke a hopple and, in drifting hack through tho field, catused Grand Mogul to fall. Grand Mogul got up and galloped through the straight without his driver. As lie was passing the showgrounds fence Mr Ferguson, mounted on his galloper, endeavoured to catch him. The horses collided, and Air Ferguson was thrown heavily to the ground. Willow Wave then became involved in the mishap, and his driver, S. A. Edwards, was thrown out. Edwards and Stewart, driver of *Gra.nd Mogul, escaped with a shaking. Grand Alogul was not injured.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19370809.2.161
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 10
Word Count
181COURSE ACCIDENT Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in