Jockey killed
fa’V Z Press Assn— Copy rig nt) SYDNEY. A 45-year-old New South Wales jockey/ Sid Bundy, was killed at Randwick on Saturday when the former New Zealand horse, Storming, fell after 250 m in the Vaucluse Handicap. Bundy, having his only ride of the day, was crushed underneath the falling horse, and died of head injuries soon after being rushed to the Rand wick casualty room. Storming, a seven-year-old gelding trained at Nowra by Johnny Hudson, a former jockey who often rode with Bundy, was destroyed after suffering multiple fractures in the fall.
It was the first fatal race-fall at Randwick since Jimmy Duncan was killed in 1946, but Stan Cassidy died after a training track accident at Randwick in July. 1974.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34132, 20 April 1976, Page 8
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