JOCKEY INJURED
ACCIDENT AT GERALDINE
TIMARU, This Day. When D. D. Stove, an apprentice jockey, of Main South Road, Hornby, was thrown from Denim during the running of the Orari Hack Handicap at the Geraldine Racing Club’s meeting at Orari on Saturday, he suffered serious internal injuries which necessitated his admission to the Timaru Public Hospital. Denim ran off the course near the six-furlong post and Stove was dislodged when the horse jumped the outside rail. He fell heavily and was rendered unconscious.
Stove was attended by Dr. F. A. Scannell, Temuka, at the course, and was transferred by the St. John Ambulance to the hospital. His condition last evening was reported to be fairly serious. -Ashburton Guardian, 21/10/1946.
RACING NEWS
By Sentinel
Jottings
Abdicate was put under the hammer at Feilding last week, but was passed in at 500gns.
The pool on the concluding event at the Gore meeting was £9500 — a record for the course.
The Sir Galloway mare Royal Vestments is to be trained at Wingatui by H. A. Anderton.
The condition of the jockey, D. D. Stove, who was seriously injured when he was thrown on to the rails at Riccarton, is reported to be showing a slight improvement. -Otago Daily Times, 1/11/1946.
DEATH OF JOCKEY
MISHAP AT GERALDINE RACES
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The death occurred in the Timaru Public Hospital this morning of Douglas David Stove, aged 18, an apprentice jockey, who was severely injured when thrown from his mount, Denim, during the running of the Orari Hack Handicap at the Geraldine Racing Club’s meeting on October 49. Denim, second favourite, attempted to run off toward the box where his stablemate Denary was quartered when holding the lead near the six furlongs. He jumped the outside rail of the course and, in doing so, dislodged Stove who landed on his back across the rail, then falling to the ground. Stove suffered severe internal injuries. -Ashburton Guardian, 6/11/1946.
NOTES FROM RICCARTON
HORSES ENGAGED AT WINTON
(Special) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 7. Nearly all the galloping at Riccarton this morning was done early. Most of the riders and some of the trainers were absent after breakfast, attending the funeral service for the late D. D. Stove, whose body was taken later to Kaikoura for burial. -Otago Daily Times, 8/11/1946.
JOCKEY’S DEATH
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST
COMMENT BY CORONER
(P.A.) TIMARU, Jan. 28. There was conflict of evidence concerning the use of prickers in horse racing when an inquest into the death of Douglas David Stove, apprentice jockey, was reopened by the Coroner (Mr G. G. Chisholm) at Timaru to-day. Stove died from injuries received after a fall from Denim in the Orari Hack Handicap at a race meeting at Orari on October 19 last year.
The Coroner said that witnesses were unable to agree as to whether the use of prickers in a horse race was proper practice.
After evidence had been given concerning the use of prickers on the horse, witnesses were questioned by Stove’s father, David Haroldswick Stove.
Robert Parker Register, trainer of Denim, said he had instructed Stove to ride the horse behind the others until he came into the straight, because he was a strong puller. He had saddled the horse before the accident, and the saddle was in good order. He had watched the race from the stand. When Denim had come to the turn of the track the horse had run off the course and thrown Stove. Witness said he had caught Denim after the horse had jumped into the paddock, and on taking off the saddle had found that it was broken. There were leather checkers on the bit of the bridle, but no prickers. The only reason he could give for the horse running off the course at the point it had done was that he had other horses stabled nearby, and Denim had been boxed with one the previous night and on the day of the meeting.
Ivan John George Walther, jockey and farrier, Christchurch, said there was a pricker attached to the bridle of Denim on the off-side. While holding Denim just before the running of the Orari Handicap, he had noticed the pricker. Witness explained that a pricker was a round piece of leather with tacks driven through it, and the leather was fitted to the bit with the tack points next to the horse’s cheek. He estimated that the width of the pricker was nearly four inches.
No Interference Maurice James McClintock, apprentice jockey, who rode Foreign Ways in the Orari Handicap, said that after the start of the race, Denim had gone to the front. It had run off the course between the sixth and seventh furlong post. Stove had been struggling to hold it and bring it back, but the next thing he had seen was Stove up in the air over the top of the horse. Stove had landed on his back on top of the outer rail. There had been no interference from any of the horses on the track.
Richard Pentecost, who stood at the six furlongs post during the running of the race, said Stove had been trying hard to bring Denim back on to the track. He thought Stove was unable to hold the horse on the track. Denim was fully a length ahead of the field when he had run off, and there had been no interference, witness added.
Walter Patrick Hogan said he considered that Stove had let the horse’s head go to try to keep his seat, but his mount had jumped the rail. Witness added that he had gone to the scene of the accident immediately. Stove appeared to be badly hurt. A stirrup iron had been attached to his left foot, so he (Hogan) had removed it. He thought that the stirrup leather had broken shortly after the horse had pulled to outside the rails.
A verdict was returned that Stove had died in the Timaru Public Hospital on November 6, the cause of death being generalised peritonitis after injuries received when he was thrown from a horse he was riding at the racecourse at Orari on October 19, 1946. -Ashburton Guardian, 29/1/1947.
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