Kiwi Can injured
!N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. The topclnss New Zealand galloper, Kiwi Can, was badly Injured In Melbourne on Wednesday night and might nut race again In Australia. Kiwi Can went berserk while being loaded aboard a plane In Melbourne. He wax to have started In the Epsom Handicap at Raudwlek tomorrow for whleh ho was a heavily barked tlilrrl favourite at 8 to 1.
Tlie late defection of Kiwi Can will leave a fortune In the bags of pre post and doubles book BMMNa who do not refund money lost on serateliings.
The Jockey. Roger t-aug, was with Kiwi Can while the horse was being loaded into tlie plane in Melbourne. Kiwi Can took fright and broke his loading crate to pieces. and suffered i some injury.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33964, 3 October 1975, Page 2-3 (Supplement)
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