The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-02

few years ago he brought thousands OF
dollars a year to his owners and Wou!o
any day have sold at auction at a fancy
price. Today he is earning scarcely a
hundred dollars clear profit for his
cabby and would hardly sell at one
fourth that amount. He has expe-
sienced the viccissitudes of misfortune
rs certainly as any human being could.
He was taken to England some time
ago to try the English tracks. h
climate perhaps did not suit him. AT
any rate he made successive failures.
His owners sold him and after one n
another trial he passed from hand to
hand till he became the property of his
present ow.er. And there is no one
to rescue him from his fate. But like
human d:iftwood he Is not alone in his
misfor.rnes. Many horses of world
wide fame have Jared as pitifully in
their later years. In the stables at
tached to the Pasteur institute, Paris,
might have been seen not long ago two
horses of European repute. One was
the favorite charger of Marshal Can
colbert, which in happier days had been
tie idol of it's master and had followed
him to his last resting-place; the other
was Baron Fiint's st. Claude, the
winner of the Grand Steeplechase at
Auteuil in 1890. These once-famous
horses were used for the production Of
serum. and ended their days as martyrs
TO science.
A still worse fate was the lot of
George Frederick, the winner of the
Derby Of 1874. Winning the Derby was
at orce the crown and end of his racing
career. and after many vicissitudes he
found himself some years later in the
shafts Of a cab. The ultimate fate of
this "blue-ribbon winner" was In the
t.acker's yard, where he was convert
ed into cats meat. Another horse
which descended from the proudest
pinnacle a horse ever occupied to the
shafts of a cab was Gen. Boulanger's
black Ara, which. with its arched neck
end proud %curveting, so impressed the
"brave generals worshipers." Within
a few years Of his owners death he
was plying for hire" in the very
ftreetsthat had witnessed his triumphs.
Horses, too, like men, have their TRACE
dies, and more than n famous racer
has come to an untimely end. Blue
Gown. a Derby winner Of thirty years
ago., was on his way to America to a
new owner, who had bought him for
ga, coo, when he died, On the voyage.
tIarikoff, a Derby ~favorite, was burned
to death while travelling by rail to his
headquarters. kingcraft's career ended
with winning the Derby, in 1870. Four
teea years later he was sold for a small
tu-l to an American sports nan, and,
like Blue Gown. did not survive the
voyage. ~F;tzroy'was SHOT, a fate which
also overlook silvio, winner Of the
Derby and the st. Leger in 1877, whose
brilliant racing career was ended by a
broken leg. The fates of famous war
horses are happier than those of their
brethren Of the turf, and many Of them
have ended their days in peace and lux
ury and have left lasting memorials
behind them. One of the most famous
Of the worlds horses was Copenhagen,
the little Danish chestnut thoroughbred
which carried the Duke of Wellington
through the Spanish war and bore him
to his browning victory at Water
loo. When his war days were over Co.
spenhagen was sent to Strathhe.dsaye,
where he was feted and petted
10 his hearts content, The attentions
af his admirers became at ..ast so try