FIORD DESTROYED AFTER BREAKING LEG
[Special To “ Northern Advocate ”1 CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. As the result of breaking a foreleg, the Riccarton-trained racehorse Fiord was destroyed yesterday morning. Fiord and Paper Note broke out of a box at the Greymouth course on Monday night and galloped down the railway line for half a mile and on to a railway bridge near Kaiata. An apprentice. C. Masters, who is an expert at imitating the neigh of a horse, called, and Paper Note came right up to him. Fiord, who was some 20 yards on the bridge, turned to gallop back, but when nearly off, twisted a front leg between the sleepers, and foil 12 feet into the creek, where lie swam to the other side. One of his front legs was found to be broken in two places, and he was destroyed.
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Northern Advocate, 5 January 1938, Page 9
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