MISHAP TO RACEHORSE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 257, 29 September 1932, Page 8

MISHAP TO RACEHORSE.

DEATH OF SPEAR LAD. Received September 29, 9.25 a.m. MELBOURNE, Sept. 29. While schooling over tho hurdles at Caulfield, the New Zealand horse, Spear Lad, ridden by I. Tucker, tell heavily at a hurdle and later died. After the spill he continued, but within a-quarter of an hour collapsed. His trainer, Jones, alter an examination came to the conclusion that the horse did not die from the effects of the tall, but from internal haemorrhage. Speal- Lad was a fivc-year-old gelding by Groyspear from Bonrina who raced in the interests of tho Wellington owner, Mr W. R. Kcmball, and who formed one of George Jones’s team at present in Victoria. As a throo-year-old Spear Lad was accorded 17 starts, ins host effort being his third to Simba and Manawhenua in tho Eden Handicap at the Auckland autumn mooting in April, 1931, although ho ran a second at Otaki later in tho season. Last term his 12 outings under silk wero productive of two firsts and ono third. His first success came in open company, although he was still a maiden performer, when ho led the field home in an exciting finish in tho Levin Handicap last November. He followed it up with a victory in the Wairavapa when he won the President’s Handicap, last year’s winner of the Epsom at Randwick, Autopay being tho runner-up. Spear Lad never really reached the heights expected of him and it would appear as though his mentor was endeavouring to mould him into a hurdler when disaster overtook tho gelding.—“ Binocular.”