MELBOURNE CUP WINNER
NEARLY ELECTROCUTED
CATALOGUE’S SERIOUS INJURY
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
PALMERSTON N„ January 17
Catalogue, the winner of the. Melbourne Cup, had a narrow escape from death by electrocution, when en route to the Awapuni track for training operations at 5 a.m. He trod on some mud, underneath which was buried a live wire, which had been brought down in last night’s storm. The horse wont down like a log, receiving injuries which will prevent his racing for sometime. But for the fact that the wire, carrying 230 volts, was partly insulated, under the layer of mud which concealed it, Catalogue would have been immediately electrocuted. Catalogue was thrown right down on his nose by the shock, and the boy cn him, Bates, took a heavy fall. The horse had the knee of one foreleg cut right through to the bone, a cut on the nose, and an injured stifle. He raced away, when he recovered from the shock, but was recaptured. He was returned to his stable very lame, being in a bad way for a while. Sudan and Brazil were just behind Catalogue when the accident occurred, and received slight electric shocks, but escaped serious injury.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1939, Page 7
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