JOCKEY KILLED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 105, 27 January 1933, Page 10

JOCKEY KILLED

Horse Stumbles and Falls on Training Track FATALITY NEAR AUCKLAND Dominion Special Service. Auckland, Jan. 26. An apprentice jockey, Gerald Belmain Edwards, aged 18, attached to the stables of Mr. P. E. Pope, of Takanini, was killed at Takanini this morning. He was riding the horse Substation, at the gallop, in company with another racehorse, Speedmint, when his horse was seen to stumble, and he was thrown to the ground, the horse falling on him. An examination revealed that life was extinct, a doctor stating that death bad been instantaneous, having resulted from a fracture of the skull. After Substation had gone a few chains at the gallop, the horse appeared to falter as it approached a bamboo rod on the edge of the track and, after continuing for about a chain, the horse fell. The boy went underneath his mount’s neck, and when the horse rose and galloped down the track, he lay still on his back. Mr. Pope said that Edwards had been with him for eight or nine months. He had shown wonderful improvement in his riding work, and ( had ridden in two races at Avondale in the spring. It had been intended to give him more rides in future. This is the first fatality which has occurred at the Takanini track. Edwards was a very promising jockey, being a capable horseman and a good “work rider.” He started his apprenticeship with Mr. J. T. Jamieson, who is now in Australia.