OUT OF ACTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 8

OUT OF ACTION

POPULAR HORSEMEN GREEN AND MACKIE (Special to THE SUN.} PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday. | 111-fortune is at present dogging Tommy Green, the Awapuni light- I weight, for after being stood down for a month by the stewards of the Auei* land Racing Club, he was fated to ’ meet with a fall while following tin i hounds at Palmerston North on nesday, which has laid him aside for s a further term. Green was mounted on the Kilbronoj gelding Askari, and was one of i strong company who was following tte sport which has so many enthusiast followers in the Manawatu district j when he crashed at one of the fenes* Green fell heavily, and it was found ;•

that he had sustained a fracture the collar-bone. X-ray examination® Thursday disclosing that the bre« was a bad one, being situated close the neck. Instead of returning to the sadcie Wanganui, there now appear* to little prospect of Green donnin* * prior to the Wellington winter M ture. LOSE HIS POSITION The mishap came at a most tunate time for the leading and it would seem that he will®** lose the leading position on the P**. iership ladder which he was so ous of maintaining. t M His services will also be los , trainer R. E. Hatch, and it would | pear that that mentor will | advance another promising | in C. Stratton —a brother of Ned o ton, the hurdle rider —earlier had contemplated. The boy is * get, but possesses an and pair of hands, and shows pro , Askari, who will probably be seeking honours over country & near future, was mounted by ano fJ| | * horseman following the g completed the course, jumping lently. The services of another AW rZ g | horseman in R. J. Mackie pionj m be lost to owners for a pe*™" Mackie having decided to ent £* to r pital after the Hastings^ me ? t Vioitf undergo an operation which 113 ; been pending. Despite enjoyed but indifferent health ior little time past, Mackie has n excellent season. —A