ACCIDENT TO A JOCKEY.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Coromandel, Wednesday. During the running of the Opitonui Handicap at the Coromandel races to-day, the bay mare Nereid, who was well in the front van, came down a cropper, rolling over her rider (R. Smith), who appeared to be seriously injured. Dr. Cheeseman at once attended to the sufferer, and found that, in addition to a very severe crushing of tho body, the man had sustained a dislocation and fracture of the shoulder blade. 'I he patient was removed to the hospital, and is now doing as well as can be expected.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11536, 22 November 1900, Page 5
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