ELECTRIC SPURS.
A SINGULAR DEVICE-
JOCKEY FATALLY INJURED
United Press Association. Copyright
PERTH, Dec. 27
A jockey named McDougall Avas unseated .and fatally injured when riding in Saturday’s races. It- Avas discovered that he Avas wearing an electric bat t ery callable of ing an electric shock to the-' horse through the spurs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2385, 29 December 1908, Page 5
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53ELECTRIC SPURS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2385, 29 December 1908, Page 5
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