A SEMES OF SPILLS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11400, 18 April 1899, Page 3

A SEMES OF SPILLS.

If on any of our colonial courses nine spills occurred in one day we sliouk! be having demands for an inquiry as to whether the track was safe or the obstacles fair. Yet it does not seem to be suggested that any inquiry is necessary with respect to the Lingfield (Kng.) course, while this was the casualty record on February 21. The most serious mishap was sustained by C. James, who, U'rnugh the fnllina of Buffalo at. the water iv the St. Piers Steeplechase, had his ribs badiv crushed, and lie was removed on a

stretcher to the ambulance room in great pain. W. Donnelly, whose mount eamo to grief in the fame race, received a bad contusion in the region of the abdomen ; but Drir.coll, who was on Kidnapper, happily escaped with nollihi" worse than a shaking. In tho New .Selling Sluer-loeluißo Lord William and \ rcdo came down, but the jockeys of both were unhurt. Through tho falling of Lord Bruce in the Hever Hurdle Handicap, Stainton unfortunately broke his collar-bone, but though <*ravo fears were entertained that J. Jones, A. Biroh and Parvin (tho respective riders of Virginian Rose, Irish Knight, and .Uarcomlio) had sustained serious injuries when they fell nil of a heap at the first hurdles in the straight when taking part in the Surrey Hurdle Handicap, fortunately they wore on y knocked out for a time, and were able to walk back, though each received a very bad shaking.