RIDING FOR HARD FALL

NZ Truth, Issue 1181, 19 July 1928, Page 11

RIDING FOR HARD FALL

Taking Him On and Bringing His Mount Down

It is very hard to understand som« horsemen riding these days, and especially is this so with jumping horsemen. .

•THE best of good friends before and 1 after a race, during the running, of a steeplechase, or a hurdle event, they will all but commit murder m their endeavor to win. . There was a very flagrant case of taking a rjder on.at the Trentham meeting last week. .* • From the stands it could not be seen, but . "N;Z. Truth" m talking of the event afterwards with a rider who was m the race got a little bit of a Bhock. . \ . "Truth" mentioned .something about the rider of the winner — a little praise it was— when "m went" a jockey who witnessed what had actually, taken place at one of the fences. "Glad to see. him win, are you? Perhaps everybody else is, too, .but he did an awful thing to one rider m the, race. . '/.' ■. . \ "•.•' . ■ ■; "And the> rider he deajt with would never ;do it to him.

"What did he do? ■'< Coming to the fence where '■ fell, the rider of the winner was running— — ■ — off at the obstacle. "He had - pulling on one rein to straighten his mount up, but he could not dp it and down 'he went" That such was . happening could not be picked up from the stands, .but that there was wilful interference — and' the Interference brought about a horse's downfallr ; -"Truth" is quite ready to believe.. ■.'•_, Horsemen who indulge m tactics •of this description are better on .the outer. • Aiding over jumps is a dangerous enough business at any time, without bringing m unnecessary elements. Sooner or later this "taking him ' on scone hot" will land a horseman \ m court charged with manslaughter. '.-■'■