TROTTER SWIMS TO SEA
RESCUE BY LAUNCH AFTER THREE HOURS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 6. The trotter. Substitute, may be a good horse in the wet. He certainly swam briskly for three hours last night in Wellington harbour, and was only rescued after he had gone from Eastbourne to about two miles north of Pencarrow lighthouse. Substitute got the urg£ to go down to the sea when he was being taken for a spell in a paddock in Gollan’s Valley. Mr A. J. Walling was taking Substitute there when the horse broke away, headed for the beach, and. with out hesitation, took to the water. On an ebbing tide the horse began to swim straight out tj sea. Had Mr Walling not been able to get in touch with a fishing launch. Substitute might have been swimming yet, for he was still going well when the launch found him off the’ Heads. The trotter is none the worse; but his owner still intends to spell him.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26055, 7 March 1950, Page 6
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