CATALOGUE’S NARROW ESCAPE
TROD ON LIVE ELECTRIC WIRE WILL NOT RACE FOR SOME TIME I United Press Association! PALMERSTON N.. Tin's Day. Catalogue, winner of the Melbourne Cupj had h narrow escape from death by electrocution. En route lo (lie 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 by last night's storm. The horse went down like a log, receiving injuries preventing him racing for some time, and, but for the fact that the wire, carrying 230 volts, was partly insulated under the layer of mud which concealed it, lie would have been immediately electrocuted. Catalogue was thrown right down on his nose by the shock and the hoy on him, Bates, took a heavy fall. 'J he horse had a knee of one foreleg cut right through to the hone, a cut on the nose and an injured stifle. He raced away when he recovered from the shock but was recaptured and returned to the stable very lame, being in a bad way for a while. Suban and Brazil were just behind Catalogue when the accident occurred and received slight electric shocks but the other horses escaped.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 January 1939, Page 5
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