CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE AND COURSE
First Day of Greymouth Trots
SPECTACULAR SMASH IN INTERMEDIATE HANDICAP
PRINCIPAL EVENT WON BY PURINA
(BY “CARBINE.”)
At the opening day of the Greymouth Trotting Club's meeting yesterday the Dominion Handicap was comfortably won by Purina, while George Arliss had an easy win in the Summer Handicap. A sensational smash in the Intermediate Handicap saw five horses fall and isix others were consequently excluded from the race. Of 15 starters only five finished. One driver was sent to hospital to have his injuries treated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 9
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90CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE AND COURSE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 9
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