CAIRNS’S DEATH

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 12

CAIRNS’S DEATH

HOW HE MET HIS FATE (United I'.A By Telegraph Copyright) Al l 'iL I: o: ']: N" It', Friday. An inquest was held today concerning the death of the jockey, H. Cairns who was killed on Saturday in the hurdle race at Moonee Valley Other jockeys said Cairns’s horse took off too far away from the last hurdle and crashed into it. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. RACING FIXTURES AUGUST 3—Christchurch Hunt S—• Poverty Bay Hunt M. 15. 17—Canterbury J.C. S~! J , ahuranga Hum Ellerslie). i4—Hawke’s Bay Hunt —l>arinevirke Ft C. 2D —Dannevirke Hunt 4. s—Alarton5 —Alarton J.C Taranaki Hunt SEPTEMBER 4. s—Alarton J.C. i 7—Otago Hunt 12. 14—Wanganui J.C. \ -I—Ashburton R C. 21— Napier Park R.C. * 21 23 —Avondale J.C. 1 26. 27—Geraldine R.C. 1 28—Hawke’s Bay J.C. < OCTOBER 4 2 —Aianavvatu Hunt 2—Birch wood Hunt. 1 s—Kurow J.C \i 5. 7—Auckland R.C. ( 10. 12—Dunedin J C £ 17. 10—South Canterbury J.C £ L0 —Masterton R.C < 24,26—Poverty Bay Turf Club 26. 28—Wellington R.C. 26, 30—Waikato R.C. ( 2S —Waverley R.C f 28—Waikato Hunt ] 28 —Waipawa R.C. 2S—North Canterbury R.c. ]