INJUREDD JOCKEY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 8

INJUREDD JOCKEY

TO RIDE NEXT, MONTH

The successful apprentice Jf. McKenzie may bo seen iv the saddle again in a month or so, but it is doubtful if he will be fit enough to ride at the Great Northern fixture at Ellerslie four weeks hence. McKenzie had his left leg broken under unusual circumstances at the Ohinemuri Meeting seven weeks ago. He had a mount in the two-year-old race, and as the hoises were walking in to the bai-ricr.an-other horee bumped into McKenzie, breaking the leg above the ankle. The rider had to be assisted to the ground, and while he was being placed •iv the ambulance another jockey was sent' for to take the ride. Incidentally, McKenzie's mount, Gay Sister, finished last, so the chance ride did not on thin occasion prove to be a winning one. This accident came at a most Inopportune time for the Te Awamutu apprentice.* The week previous" to the Ohincmuri fixture: Iv had ridden Jonathan' at" Te Rapa, winning the mile," a race which was then considered to be a direct pointer to the Auckland Easter' Handicap, and so' it proved.' .But' for the'accident at Paeroa McKenzio would undoubtedly have had the mount- on Jonathan at Ellerslie. Jonathan not only won thi faster Handicap, but lie.; also captured 1 the chief sprint at that meeting/ and, going on to Avondale, captured the. prinicipal handicap on the opening day with 19.12 in the saddle.

The amount won in stakes in these three races totalled £1150, the jockey's percentage of which, would, be £46, so the broken leg was an expensive one in every sense of' the word.