DEAD MAN WINS A RACE.
+ —: Details of a rßoe at Arias, on the Rosario Eailway, id which a dead jockey won, are eent to the Sporting Times by a correspondent at Buenos Ayres:— "Mario Oliva was one of tbe riders in a race of three squares. After the usual preliminaries tbe horses started, and Oliva's horse won. According to the testimony of spectators who wore in a position to know, Oliva <*as a dead man alter covering about half the distance. "The body retained its upright position not only for as far as tbe •rays,' but for two squares beyond it, where the horse stopped of its ■ own accord, and turned to face the racecourse. When the animal! ■ turned the corpse fell off."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8263, 17 October 1906, Page 3
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123DEAD MAN WINS A RACE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8263, 17 October 1906, Page 3
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