SENSATIONAL INCIDENT.
COULD NOT STOP HORSE. PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. There was'a sensational ending to the cup race at the first day of the Manawatu meeting to-day. Red Sun ran brilliantly into second place from the rear jbf the field, tout his rider could not pull him up after passing the post and he continued for another round. At the end of this an attempt by the clerk of the course to stop him failed. The horses bumped together and Red Sun nearly fell. This seemed tfo give him fresh impetus and he went on ’for another round of the track when a second attempt by the clerk of the course to stop him resulted in a collision, both horses falling and losing their ridersThe horses careered away riderless, 'Red Sun being finally caught by a stable hand. In the meantime, the rider, G. Tattersall, had returned to the enclosure, and when Red Sun eventually arrived he weighed In all correct.
In all Red Sun galloped the best part of four miles. The clerk of the course had to change his mount.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19460, 27 December 1934, Page 11
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