DANGEROUS!

NZ Truth, Issue 1173, 24 May 1928, Page 13

DANGEROUS!

I And It Should Be Stopped ''• j > j j , Oases crop up now and again ' ', ; that call for some addition to the rules' of. racing. "THERE was such an instance at ', * Wanganui last week, when Shin-v^ ing Armour was allowed to contest hurdle race. ' ' With next to no schooling, he was allowed to take his place m a big field of hacks. ' ' His superior pace, of course, let Him reach the front, but when he came to a fence he ran it down, screwed, and all but upset the whole field.. His pranks at the hurdles brought , about the downfall of the favorite. It is positively unfair that a raw horse such as Shining Amibur should be allowed to endanger life and limb, , ' and a clause could well be inserted m the rules to prevent it. As he showed at Wanganui, he was not only a danger ' to the boy pn his; ( back, but he was .also a menace to everybody else m. the race. Hurdle horsemen have enough : risks to contend with, without ' ~, having to put up with trouble that, i i can be easily eliminated. Horsemen who were m the race '\ \ spoke rather heatedly over the busi- ■' " ness and they had every : reason, to;' \1