HECTOR GRAY REDUCED TO PENURY
ONCE LEADING JOCKEY, NOW BANKRUPT. (Pet Press Association). NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. Reduced from a position of affluence as the leading jockey in the Dominion to a state of penury, Hector Gray met his creditors in New Plymouth to-day In bankruptcy." He attributed his failure to the sentence of life disqualification from the pursuit of his profession, and his creditors on the wholo were sympathetic instructing the D.O.A. to facilitate his discharge providing an investigation of his estate proved satisfactory. Unsecured creditors totalled £939 and after the realisation of assets bankrupt estimated his deficiency at £324. Ha disclosed he now had no Interest in any racehorses and said he had lost £15,000 on two farming ventures.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3577, 7 April 1927, Page 6
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121HECTOR GRAY REDUCED TO PENURY Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3577, 7 April 1927, Page 6
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