RACING.
FIXTURES.
April 1(3, IS—Wairarapa B.C, April 16, IS —.Feildiug J.C. April 16, 18 —Auckland B.C. April IS—Waipukurau J.C. April IS, 19 —Canterbury J.C.
BANKRUPT JOCKEY.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Wed.
Beduecd from a position of affluence as the leading jockey in the Dominion to a state of penury, Hector Gray met his creditors in New Plymouth to-day in bankruptcy. He attributed his failure to a sentence of life disqualification from the pursuit- of his profession, and his creditors on the whole were, sympathetic, instructing the District Official Assignee to facilitate his discharge, providing an investigation of the estate proved satisfactory. Unsecured creditors totalled £939, and after the realisation of assets bankrupt estimated his deficiency at £324. lie disclosed that lie now had no Interest in anv racehorses, and said that he had lost £15,000 on two farming ventures.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 April 1927, Page 5
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