CURIOUS RACING ACCIDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1189, 26 July 1911, Page 8

CURIOUS RACING ACCIDENTS.

HOW DROIfEDAUY LOST THE GRAND NATIONAL. The curious accident lh.it befell Jockey Watson, (ho ruler of Clem oji Saturday, at Trcnfhom, is only another illustration of how simple it is lor a moving object to sustain serious injury in collision with a stationary one. In this ca>e a spectator, fancying all the. horses in the race had cone, by, looked out beyond the rails to sen the. finish, and wns'apparently M absorbed in watching these in the lead that he did not hear Clem mining along so close to the rails that his rider's lei; came in contact with the spectator's head, and was fractured, whilst (ho spectator was uninjured. The accident is probably unique, in the history of horsr-racine iii the world. Another nc;-ident which, though cniiivly bears on the, [mint, occurred during the ru.'.inin» ( .f the Grand National Sleeplei-liasw sonic years ago. Just after the horses enlerpil th" straight; at the finish a cliilit strayed oa '.o tin , track, and :'S there was an iniinin-i-nl risk of il ridden down, « cdii, stable rushed across the course, wintclie-.-! up the child, and made for Iho rail. IP. had almo'l: reached it, when the loadiV hors.o. Dvomedtiry, eaino tliiiiulerin-' up" looking an easy winner, riifnrtiinalolv! Dromedary's forefoot touclied (lie heel of Vlif constable's lmot. us Ihe lattc-r was rushing for safely. It was a mere (ouch, but it brought down the 'chaser in a heap, just as ho was romping in. Dromt'. dary was paying ,£IOO dividend on the. machine. . i