More on the Lurch Late Scratching Affair

Further to our earlier story about leading Kiwi driver John ‘Lurch’ Dunn pulling a sickie at the Ashburton race meeting in Sunday because someone tipped him off about the integrity folk being at the track with their breath testing kit, the red hot mail from the South Island is that the man was in fact on the grog as we surmised, and full of turps was painting the Christchurch town red.