WHAT MR PROCTOR SAYS ABOUT MARINA.
In a conversation with a racing scribe of the "Wanganui Chronicle," Mr Proctor said he firmly believed that Marina was "got at" in Auckland, and thought it was done in the saddling paddock previous to the National Hurdle Race, where' an unusually large crowd was thronging rOund the mare, and it would have been an easy matter for anyone to have disguised a small instrument and to have injected the "needful" without anyone being the wiser. Proctor says he remarked to the mare's connections how quiet she seemed at the post, a most unusual thing for her, generally displaying, if anything, too much eagerness for the fray. Proctor finished up by showing the scribe a nice collection of Marina tickets, and informed him that he had had the biggest bet in his life on her chance for the big Northern Hurdles. I may say in connection with this matter, although late in the day, that Mr E. I). HaL stead, the vet, who examined Marina on the Monday after the race, is satisfied she was tampered with.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 160, 8 July 1899, Page 3
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