KICKED AND SCRATCHED
RACECOURSE STORY HAPPENING IN JBB3 A Gisborne resident who unearthed an old copy of the Poverty Hav Herald a few days ago noticed a racecourse story which bears repetition, and lie went- to the trouble of writing it out for the purpose of republication. The copy ol the paper was dated Thursday, March 29. 1883, and the item referred to was as follows :
“A good story is told by a well known jockey. It appears that a certain gentleman scratched his horse for the Wanganui Cup, and the proceedings being discussed in the grandstand, his maternal parent- overheard the remarks about her son’s horse being scratched. Ihe old lady was very indignant at such insinuations, nnd said the horse was not scratched, for she had noticed in the morning that there was not a sear or blemish of any kind on the horse from its head to its hoots. However, to make sure, she sallied forth lo the saddling paddock to see for hersell. She examined the horse critically with her umbrella, and in such a fashion as- to induce the horse t-o kick out his heels, capsizing Ithe old lady and crushing all her millinery. When the joke gotwhispered about, a bystander laughingly remarked ‘that the old lady had been hoth kicked and scratched.’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 15
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218KICKED AND SCRATCHED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 15
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