ANOTHER PACER’S WILD ESCAPADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 149, 14 September 1927, Page 10

ANOTHER PACER’S WILD ESCAPADE

BUSY MOTOR TRAFFIC RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURIES TO MARE THE danger to which drivers and - 1 - their charges are subjected when on the roads, through speedy motor traffic, was further demonstrated yesterday afternoon, when the useful pacing mare Tui Zolock ran amok and in consequence received several injuries. When returning from a trip to the suburbs yesterday afternoon, Mr. F. Smith, who was driving his handsome mare, Tui Zolock, in a new Bryan sulky, encountered one of the big buses at the corner of Great South and Rockfield roads. The reinsman pulled up at the side of the road, but the bus sped round the corner, almost touching the mare, who took fright and jumped to the kerbing, where the vehicle capsized. Before Smith could regain his feet Tui took off along the thoroughfare at & trot, and passed three men on the road, who might have checked her progress. JUMPING QUALITIES Further on she gathered up speed and careered at full gallop, turning into a side lane. Here she was confronted by a five-foot wail, but there is evidently some of the Beau Cavalier strain in Tui’s blood, as she cleared the obstacle in her stride, the sulky bouncing over behind her. It seemed an impossible feat, but according to an eye-witness the cart bounced over the wall like a rubber ball. Mr. Smith and an assistant arrived on the scene, but Tui was not to be easily recaptured, and after galloping round Williamson’s paddock she espied an open gate, and tore through, crossing a gargen en route and startling a woman who was putting in plants. MAD CAREER CHECKED Another wall was taken by the flying Zolock and back she made to Rockfield Road, where barb wire entanglements caused a halt. The mare got over the wire, but the sulky, now well battered, refused duty, and remained oti the opposite side. Workmen in the vicinity went to the rescue, and the pacer’s mad career terminated. MARE IN SORRY PLIGHT When seen by morning in her quarters, Tui Zolock was in a sorry plight, for besides being stiff and sore in every joint, the mare has ugly lacerations on the inside of the near front leg, while the off hind pin is badly cut about. The sulky is also badly damaged, although strange to say the wheels are as straight and true as when the journey commenced. Considering the knocking about the animal and the vehicle received, it is nothing short of miraculous that there is anything left of either. The accident is most unfortunate for owner-trainer Smith, who wa s g€;tting the daughter of Hal Zolock —Papatui ready for the Auckland fixture next month, and she was showing encouraging form. , Judging by the nature of Tui’s injuries, it will be some time before she will be able to speed up again.