HORSE MAIMED.
EXPERT USE OF KNIFE. AUCKLAND, Mar. 31. An attack was made on the racehorse Sir Ringman with a sharp instrument yesterday afternoon. This settled his prospects of starting in the Brighton Hurdle race for which he would undoubtedly have been the hottest favourite for many years at the opening day of the Auckland Racing Club’s Easter meeting. Sir Ringman was running out in one of his trainer’s paddocks at Takanini yesterday afternoon, when he was in the best of condition. On appearances he was a grand first leg for the big double but somewhere about 4 p.m. an unauthorised person entered the paddock, armed with a keen blade and plunged it into the elbow of the horse. It has been common gossip in racing circles for days past that Sir Ringman would not run in the Brighton Hurdles. Dr. W. C. Ring, owner of the horse and a veterinary surgeon, in an interview at the racecourse said: “My life this week has been a posi tive bedlam. Since Tuesday last my telephone has been going night and day, people asking if Sir Ringman would start and what was wrong with him.
“I was out at Gray’s stables yesterday morning- and the horse was 100 per cent. Later I went to Titirangi and at 4.30 received a telephone message from Hector Gray saying that the horse had been hurt. Gray said he thought one of his cows might have horned Sir Ringman. “I immediately went to the stables and discovered that no horning had caused such an injury. It was a perfect incised wound penetrating right into the elbow and was obviously done with a very sharp instrument, used by someone who knew what lie was about.
“The horse was virtually pinned to the ground because be could not bend the elbow. I dressed the wound but Sir Ringman was desperately lame.”
Dr. Ring added that in February last when Sir Ringman was engaged in a hurdle race at Waikato the horse was let out of his box and turned loose on the main highway. Fortunately Gray liad caught the horse which started in the race and won.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 145, 2 April 1945, Page 5
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