HORSE DROWNED
• —-- v 2 ' CAUGHT IN FLOOD WATERS (Per Press Association.—Copyright) WHANGARKI, July 7. - The racehorse , Gay--; Acre, halfsister to Black Marlin, was drowned at Whakapara during last week’s flood. With her dam, Mata Kainga, she was surrounded by flood water on the property of ; ,the owner,-Mr - A. Finlayson-, of Whakapara . Wljen the horses felt the water rising around them they... commenced swimming, and were? caught in the cutrent. Gay Acre was. swept against , the girders of the -railway traffic - bridge on the main, highway, her. .head coming heavily in contact with the, ironwork. She rolled over .and was washed toward th'e Hikurangi .Swamp and has not since been seen..- The other horse swam against the' stream and reached a small island, ..where-she remained for two days before being rescued., ...
t • Gay: Acre raced five times, and Mr Finlayson. estimates, his loss at £l5O,
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1937, Page 6
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