Weaver In jured In Fail
“Lots of luck—all of it bad” is how the 18-year-old apprentice, R. B. Weaver, will regard this year's Grand National meeting. Weaver is nursing a fractured collar bone, suffered in a fall from Bush Creek in the Lincoln Steeplechase at Riccarton on Saturday. A week earlier he rode Mosque to an easy win in the Grand National Steeplechase, only to lose the race when he weighed in a pound and a half light. When he had high hopes of securing some compensation for that bad luck on Mosque on the second day of the meeting he had to settle for second in the Beaufort behind Bush Creek, ridden by his “boss,” W. J. Hillis. Hillis switched back to Koral for the Lincoln Steeplechase on Saturday and the combination won in style.
But Bush Creek made one of his rare mistakes and went out of the race at the second last fence.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31755, 12 August 1968, Page 5
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