GOATS INVADE RACETRACK
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT TWO RIDERS INJURED, HORSE KILLED (From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, Apl. 21. Outback race meetings in Australia are often crude affairs, where humorous incidents predominate, but a meeting at Roundstone Queensland, took on a tragic turn. Two riders were injured and a horse was killed when an invasion of goats on the race track caused an accident at the Roundstone Amateur Picnic Race Club’s meeting. The goats were apparently tempted by the rich grass on the track, on which about 50 had encroached when the field thundered down on them. The jockeys had no time to pull up their horses, and were unable to go round the goats. Several horses fell, and the goats were sent hurtling right and left. There was a general mixup. Jockeys, horses, and goats were spread across the track. Uninjured horses and goats scrambled to their feet and fled in panic in all directions. Officials had a busy time in restoring order. They found that six goats as well as a horse had been killed, and that two of the riders, Reginald Wilson and Michael Hanrahan, who had been thrown heavily, were unconscious. Wilson and Hanrahan were taken to Rockhampton by aerial ambulance and admitted to hospital, Wilson with a broken collarbone and Hanrahan with head injuries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 10
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