RACING FATALITIES.
"PERCENTAGE IS TOO GREAT" USE OF THE SHORT STIRRUP. CLERGYMAN SPEAKS OUT. "The modern boy rides with too short, a stirrup; of this I am absolutely certain,, as I can spoak as an old horsieman," said, the Rev. Jasper Calder yesterday, when conducting the service at the graveside of the late Mr. R. H. Reilly, the jockey who was accidentally killed at Takapuna on Monday. Mr. Calder said that during the last four or five years the deaths of four jockeys had occurred in Auckland, and another fatality had now been added to the toll. "The percentage is too great, and we should not allow it to go on if it is within our power to stop it," he said. The use of the short stirrup, particularly iti two-year-old races, did not givtf the rider a proper control over his mount. Ho considered the boys should be encouraged to ride with the let out at least four or five holes. In appealing for the support of racing bodies arid public opinion in encouraging such steps that would tend to reduce the risk of life, Mr. Calder said the fatalitifes should not be allowed to continue without protest. The lives of jockeys should be considered above all things in racing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19808, 1 December 1927, Page 10
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