"A BULLOCK RACE."
A disgraceful spectacle in the shape of a "bullock race" was an item on the day's programme at a Quoon's Birthday competition at Tunnack, in Tasmania. "Humanity" writes to the Hobart Mercury that "Two misorable, attenuated creatures, spoken of as 'trained bullocks,' who had evidently undergone a severe course of starvation and cruelty, were entered to compete for the race. Their jockeys wore in masks, got up to appoar as grotesque as it was possible, and armed with long pointed rods, in the use of which they were no doubt artists. The whole race was shocking, the poor buUocks were flogged from start to finish, and to hear the frantic shrieks oud yells of delight from the spectators was enough to make a person fancy that Bedlam had broken loose. If there was a policeman on the ground ho most miserably failed in the execution of his duty to allow such scones."
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 143, 28 August 1895, Page 3
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