Racecourse tragedy
MAN COM. APSES FROM EXCITEMENT Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Tragedy associated itself with the Victory of Fairy Herald in the Winter Oats event at Trentham on Saturday afternoon, when Mr. P. Carmody, SH’ocer. 0 f Mitcheltown, who had two tickets on the horse, dropped dead just as Fairy Herald reached the winning Post. Deceased, as the horse on which he rh J^ acet * s °me money shot out to o front, flung up his arms and cried citedlv, “Fairy Herald.” then sudenlv collapsed, the excitement eviently proving too much for his Heart.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 13
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94Racecourse tragedy Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 13
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