WAS MALA LAME?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 20

WAS MALA LAME?

SYDNEY DAMAGES SUIT,

SYDNEY, June 25. The case was continued in the Sydney Supreme Court in which Henry Edgar Russell owner of the racing colt Mala, i« suing the Commissioner of Road Transport and Tramways to recover £2000 damages owing to injuries to the colt when it was struck by a tramcar at Randwick on the morning of the Australian Jockey Clubs Derby meeting, October 3, 1936.

John T. Morran, a clerk in the club's oflice and Edgar Bell, sporting journalist. eaid they saw no signs of lameness in Mala prior to the running of the Derby. Hedley Ward, turf writer for the Sydney "Morning Herald" eaid the Derbv was„/yon by -a better horse—Talking— and the tactics employed by Mala's jackey suited Talking. Dudley Smith, the club's judge, eaid that in consequence of rumoure in regard to Mala he paid particular attention to that colt before the running of the Derby. Witness eaw no sign of lameness, fright orjractiousnew.

Edgar BeH said he noted that Mala appeared to be sound in his'track work at Melbourne and prior to the Victoria Derby*... rV .;■ ~ ■ - ■ . The hearing was again adjourned.