RACING FATALITY.
FRACTIOUS HORSE BOLTS.
RIDER STRUCK BY TREE.
A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.
(By Cable.'—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12 noon.) BRISBANE, this day. A sensational fatality occurred at the Brisbane Turf Club Meeting. Before the start of the Ladies' Bracelet for amateur riders, the horse Greek Historian bolted and galloped two and a-half miles before being pulled up. J. Donaldson replaced the exhausted rider, and when the race started the horse again bolted, charged off the course, and passed under a tree, unseating Donaldson, who was killed by the fall. The horse then jumped a fence into the street, where it was caught.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 187, 10 August 1925, Page 7
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