“THE WATER JUMP”
TARANAKI PUTS ONE OVER. The race train was travelling between Lepperton and New Plymouth, and the tourist who had boarded the special at the former station remarked in loud tones that there appeared to be some attraction in the seaside town to cause the train to be so crowded. “The Taranaki Hunt Club meeting is on to-day,” volunteered a sport. / “Oh; yes, I believe I did hear someI thing about a hunt or something of the sort,” said the man from overseas, “but it beats me how you people can work up excitement about hunt racing when you haven’t got a fence in the whole Dominion to come up to the smallest at Aintree.” No response being forthcoming, he continued to dilate upon the fearsomeness of Beecher’s Brook, and so forth, and laughed to scorn the obstacles to" be met .with in New Zealand. The sport joined issue with him, and a ding-dong battle was in progress when the train rattled into Fitzroy. “By the way,” said the tourist, “what is that er-river there?” pointing to the Henui. “River, do ypu call it?” replied the sport, “that isn’t a river! That’s the water-jump which our horses have to take three times in the Hunt Cup Steeple!” Our English friend was busy with his luggage for the next few minutes!
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1929, Page 5
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