Thought He Was Gone

NZ Truth, Issue 1029, 15 August 1925, Page 11

Thought He Was Gone

But Up He Got When Bonecto fell m the Trial Hurdles the first day at Riccarton and failed to get up, most people thought he had broken his neck. Not only most of the spectators but also his jockey and his trainer. Bonecto fell heavily, right on to his head and he lay on the ground like a dead horse, ■• . . His rider picked himself' up, had a look at his mount, and decided he had run his last race. Then he took off his saddle, and was preparing to walk home, when 10, up got Bonecto. ' . • He wasn't dead at all; he had only , stunned himself. The joke is on Bonecto's trainer, who was halfway down the straight to have a look at what he thought was his dead charge! < iitiimiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiimiimitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi iiiiimmmiiiiii