THROWN FROM GIG
TIMARU STUDMASTER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
TIMARU, This Day.
A well-known horse trainer, William John Spence, met his death this morning when proceeding out from Timaru in a gig. It is thought he had a seizure and that the horse bolted. It swerved at the foot of the hill, and Mr. Spence was thrown from the gig, landing on his head on the tar-sealed road. He was beyond assistance when picked up and life was extinct when a doctor arrived.
At one time Mr. Spence trained and raced trotters, and for the last ten years had been a trotting studmaster.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 9
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102THROWN FROM GIG Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 9
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