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HORSE CRASHES AFTER WINNING STEEPLECHASE JOCKEY WEIGHED IN UNCONSCIOUS. (Per Press Association—Copyright) Australian Press Association. Received this day, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, April 20. A horse has often been accused of not winning a race because he was "dead,” but the dead horse Ben actually won the Ledbury Steeplechase. He won by a head and instantly crashed into a fence and broke his neck. The jockey, still unconscious, was placed on the scales, declared the winner, and then taken to the hospital. KING GEORGE’S FILLY. LONDON. April 19. Scuttle, the best filly King George has yet owned, and an entrant in the Oaks, won the Brandon Handicap. This was the King's first racing success of the year.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 21 April 1928, Page 5
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