Whakamoa Injured

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32099, 22 September 1969, Page 6

Whakamoa Injured

(N.Z. Press Association) HASTINGS. After two furtongs of the Spring Gold Cup at .Hastings on Saturday Escameno got on the heel* of Katott and Mumbled, in the subsequent Interference Whakamoa was galloped on and cut on a pastern. He was always well back after that and finished tenth.

The judicial committee viewed a film of the incident and found no particular rider was responsible. His Lordehip finished well back. He bled during the race. Practice, which finished third, was elightly cheeked near the finish. Hie rider, B. S. Dodds, was sent to hospital for a back X-ray after the race. He had complained .that his back was troubling him and was found to be unfit for any further riding engagements. Earlier tn the dey L. K. Tlnaiey was dietreseed after riding Sterling in the Second Malden Event, and he was unable to fulfil further riding engagemento. It was found he had been wasting too severely. Early in the Imperial Plate NO. 2 Hawaiian, ridden by J. S Humphries, hung so badlv that it wouldn't take the bend into the straight and had to be pulled up. The horse had not previously raced on an anticlockwise track, although it is trained on one at Matamata. Veterinary examination of the horse after the race revealed a deep puncture wound in a pastern which might have caused Hawaiian to hang so badly.