THE PRESTON INQUIRY
RESUMED THIS AFTERNOON. EVIDENCE BY STIPENDIARY STEWARD. After two adjournments the inquest touching the deatli of Edward Preston, the jockey who was killed at the Takapuna races in January, was continued before Mr. F. K. Hunt', S.M., this afternoon,
The stipendiary steward of the Takapuna Jockey Club. Mr. Angus Gordon, said that he was-present at the Takapuna meeting in January last. At the spring meeting held in November, Rennie, a jockey, complained to him that one of the hurdles in the straight was too vertical. After the hurdle race on the first, day of the January meeting Rennie said that be. considered the hurdles too formidable, and that they were too vertical. Tbat statement, said witness, was incorrect. The Verdict. The coroner returned a verdict that the deceased. Edward Preston, died in the Auckland Hospital as the result of injuries received through being accidentally thrown from a horse in a hurdle race at the Takapuna races on January
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 86, 13 April 1926, Page 8
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