BATTERY ON MARE
JOCKEY FINED £lO WOULD MAKE HORSE FRANTIC (United P.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) MELBOURNE, Tuesday. John Hook, the rider of the mare Hallowe’en, on which an electric battery was found at the Richmond racecourse on July 23, was fined £lO, the maximum penalty. An expert said the saddle contained three dry cells, capable of giving a shock of 800 volts, and sufficient to make a horse frantic.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 439, 22 August 1928, Page 9
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69BATTERY ON MARE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 439, 22 August 1928, Page 9
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