Out for Life
DISHONEST JOCKEY CAUGHT Battery for Use on Horse SECRET GIVEN AWAY TO STEWARD A JOCKEY xvho was formerly in New Zealand was suspended for life in Brisbane for being caught AA r itli a battery on the Eagle Farm racecourse. Information, given secretly to a stipendiary steward led to the disclosure and to a subsequent inquiry.
United T*.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reccl. 1.40 p.m. BRISBANE, Today. There xvas a sensation in racing circles when an ex-New Zealand jockey, R. Hunt, was disqualified foi* life, after being caught with a battery at the Eagle Farm racecourse. A stipendiary steward was advised that the rider intended using a battery on Kitty Paddington in the last race, so he waited until Hunt was at the post in an earlier race.
He then searched his locker and found a battery among his clothes. The stewards stayed their hands until Hunt was weighed out and about to mount Kitty Paddington and then ordered him to the stewards’ room, where he confessed that he intended using the battery. He stated the idea was his own and his owner or trainer had no knowledge of his intention. Kitty Paddington is owned by one of the best knoWn of Queensland’s racing men, Mr. Darcy Winten.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1051, 15 August 1930, Page 9
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208Out for Life Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1051, 15 August 1930, Page 9
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