AIRMEN TO STARTLE HORSES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13415, 30 June 1911, Page 5

AIRMEN TO STARTLE HORSES.

BREAKING UF A RACE MEETING. Franch Aviator’s Allsgatisn. PARIS, June 27. M. Maurice Tabuteau, the French airman, has made a rather startling allegation. He declares that certain men prominently identified with the labour movement offered him a large sum of money to fly orer tho racecourse at Chantilly and frighten the horses running in the race for the Grand Prix on Sunday next. The disturbing effect on horses caused by aeroplanes in motion has recently been seen in England. Last month the Jockey Club, through Lord Lonsdale, wrote to the Royal Aero Club drawing attention t) the way in which horses wore startled by aviators flying over courses during tho race meetings, and asking tho club to appeal to all airmen to refrain from making siieh flights. The romniitteo of the Royal Aero Club lias accordingly appeal- «• 1 to the sporting instincts of all aviators to support this very proper and reasonabb* request, which, the committee said, had its full approbation.