RACING.
TAKAPUNA COURSE SAFE. (,By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUOK LA ND, Th ursday. Characterising the Takapunn racecourse as being safe, and attaching no blame to any person, the Coroner (Mr \V. R. McKean, S.M.) returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest on Robert Hilton .Reilly, aged 24, a jockey, who was killed through falling from his mount, White Wings, in the Rakino Handicap at the Takapuna meeting on November 28th. In reviewing the evidence, the Coroner observed that there appeared to be nothing wrong with the course. The fact that accidents happened seemed to be due to jockeys striving for a position as they rounded the bend into the straight. The accidents were due apparently more to the actual manner of riding than to any defect in the course. The evidence did not show him that the accident was due to any crowding on the part of the other jockeys, or the fault of the course. It was possible, as 'witnesses had said, that White Wings had galloped on the heels of another horse, throwing her rider. TTTRP TOPICS. Manawatu acceptances close at nine •o ’clock to-night.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1927, Page 5
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189RACING. Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1927, Page 5
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