HURDLE JOCKEY’S DEATH

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 7

HURDLE JOCKEY’S DEATH

Coroner’s Verdict (New Zealana Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, May 3. The death of Ashley Trevor Goss on March 30, in an ambulance on the way to the Palmerston North Public Hospital, was the result of a fractured skull, suffered when the horse he was riding in thte Karere Hurdles Handicap at the Awapuni racecourse fell at the second to last hurdle, the Coroner (Mr G. H. Lusk) decided today, after hearing evidence of two other riders in the race, a steward at the hurdle, and medical reports. No blame was attributable to any other rider, the Coroner said. D. F. Meehan, aij employee of the Manawatu Racing Club, who was on duty at the second to last hurdle during the race, said that Prince Joseph was two out from the rails as he approached, in the lead Tire horse hit the top rail and. fell. Goss was thrown in the path of oncoming horses and was struck by cne. To Mr H. Y. Gilliand, who ap- ■ peared for the parents of Goss, Meehan agreed that other riders would not see Goss or know of his peril until they were taking the jump. Dr. W. L. Kenealy, a pathologist, said that from a post-mortem examination he considered that death was due to head injuries which appeared to have been caused by a direct blow. Goss also had chest injuries, consistent with a horse having rolled on-sium. 1