RACEHORSE'S END

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22489, 5 August 1936, Page 16

RACEHORSE'S END

PETER JACKSON INJURY WHILE TRAINING SUCCESSES IN AUSTRALIA [bv telegraph—OWN* correspondent] WANQANUI, Tuesday A broken pastern bone in the neap foreleg ended the career of the wellknown racehorse Peter Jackson this morning. The gelding stumbled while doing three-quarter pace work on the course proper. ft was the intention of Mr. L. G. Paid, who leased the horse from tho breeders, Messrs. Smith Brothers, of Mangaweka, to give Peter Jackson a good half-pace on a circuit and have hint brought homo up the straight at a nice three-quarter pace. In the vicinity of the mile and a-quarter starting barrier the horse, which was ridden by K. Chota, was seen to falter or stumble, and when he pulled up without falling it was ascertained that a pastern bone was broken.

Peter Jackson was an aged gelding foaled in 1928, being by Nigger Minstrel from tho Martian Lovelorn mare Left. Messrs. Smith Brothers raced Peter Jackson eleven times as a two-year-old, winning the Maiden Plate at Opunake and tho Oakley Handicap at the Avcndalfl autumn meeting. The following season Peter Jackson was tho medium of a sensational plunge when he won the Moutoa Hack Handicap at the Wanganui spring meeting returning a donble-figuro dividend. Other successes included the Te Aw*, mutu Cup and the Herries Memorial Cup, the New Zealand St. Leper, nnd the Great Northern St. Leger. The last three were registered in succession.

As a four-year-old Peter Jackson raced in Australia, where he won the Moonoe Valley Gold Cup after finishing fourth in the Melbourne Cup. A year later he had but two starts in New Zealand without success, and since he has been troubled with soreness to such an extent that at one stage it was considered that he would never race, again.