NO CHANCE TO GET HIM!

NZ Truth, Issue 1214, 7 March 1929, Page 11

NO CHANCE TO GET HIM!

I TT is not often that a judicial committee has wind taken | I 1 from its sails by a witness, but at an up country meeting the | 1 other day an owner scored heavily. = 1 The owner had a horse m a race and the horse, being green, | | m addition to being no good, caused a lot of trouble to. other | I competitors, eventually bringing one horse down. . | = It was a pure accident, theygreen horse going under the § | fallen horse's neck, no blame being attachable to the rider. The | |, boy was not, strong enough, to hold the horse — that's ali there | I*' was to it. . j* | | The owner was advised m future to put up a strong rider, | | or else he would find the name of his horse on the schooling list. | | Terrible threat, that, but it moved the owner not. Back he | 1 came: "There is no schooling list for him. ■He stays m the | | ' paddock from now on." § I' The committee gasped and then laughed. A fitting finish to | | the incident would have; been the passing of a vote of thanks to f 1 the owner for his display of common sense! §