JOCKEY KILLED
ACCIDENT WHILE SCHOOLING j (Per Press Association.) MA.RTON, .this day. A shocking fatality .occurred on Marton racecourse this morning, i\n apprentice jockey, inn Gregory Neich, 15, a son of Mr. George Neich, of Clarciville, Carterton, sustaining .shocking head injuries from which he later expired. He was schooling the horse Pull Mark when the animal seemed to swerve and the lad struck his head on a distance post standing near the centre of the course.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17146, 31 December 1929, Page 11
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