DOTTED HIM ONE!
ANE jockey riding at Hokitika was engaged to ride a horse at a certain weight by the trainer.
On the day he was over-weight and also overloaded with liquid refreshment.
When the trainer found this out he obtained the services of another rider.
This did not suit the original jockey engaged and he was all for "going" the trainer for a losing riding fee.
The trainer then offered to carry out the original contract, providing the horseman could pull the weight.
That was, of course, a physical impossibility, but the jockey got even.
He sorted the boy out who had been engaged m his place and dotted him one on the nose for — as he put it — shelving him.
Another incident the West Coast stipe missed!
DOTTED HIM ONE!
NZ Truth, Issue 1168, 19 April 1928, Page 9
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