The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26
NIIsHAPS OF JOCKEYS.
Queer Accidents That Have MARRIED
Some Great Races.


The mishap at Northampton when, ow-
ing to a spectator getting on the course,
three horses collided and Sam Loates
was thrown and badly injured, has never
been exactly paralleled on an English
race course, says Pearson's Weekly.
Only last summer, however, a some
what similar accident befell Marshcress
and Arta at EPSON, when racing for the
Oaks, with the result that both their
JOckeys-Kempton Cannon and Weldon
sustained more or less severe injuries,
and this latter accident, again, was oil
most exactly paralleled some years ago
on the same course.
1t was the Wettest Derby on record
when Macaroni achieved hi remarka-
BILE win over a course that in places re-
sembed a river rather than a race track.
No fewer than thirty-two false starts
were made, and at Tattenham corner
Lord Strathrhore's Saccharometer went
down, shooting his jockey from the sad
die as from catapult.
Fantastic, which was following him
closely, leaped clean over the PROSTATE
horse and man, but Lord Rothschild's
King Of the Vale, either less fortunate
Or less agile, cannoned and collapsed,
throwing his jockey in his turn. Neither
men nor steeds, however, were seriously
hurt-a marvellous series of escapes I'M
der the circumstances.
Everyone will recall the sensational
accident which consigned Holocaust,
the second favorite for the Derby of
1899, to an untimely grave The horse
was being well ridden by Tod Sloan, but
broke his fetfock when more than half
way round the course, and had to be
destroyed Here, again, the jockey for
tunately escaped with nothing worse
than a severe shaking, and here again
Ill ~,
that the number Of false starts came
very near to eQualing that famous &C.
casion.
1t has always been a mooted point
whether the similar accident which re-
suited in 1874 in the very untimely death
of the Messrs. Litchwolds Leander, was
not caused purposely. The horse start
ed well and was well in front of the
field when, in some unaccountable man
ner, it fell and broke off it's hind leg
between the hook and the fetlock The
disabled animal was promptly shot, and
his carcass smuggled off the course and
buried secretly at the dead of night
But ugly rumors got abroad. The body
was exhumed, proved beyond a doubt to
be that of a horse aged between four
and five years, and, in the end, the too
enterprising owners were warned for
ever off all English race courses.
AS we nave seen; JOChCyS 10 1lOI III
variably go free when thrown; but it
must be confessed that some of their
escapes seem little short of miraculous.
Thus, in the Derby of 1876, a horse nam
| ed Pam threw his jockey Crank But
Ter right in front of the entire field.
Butler, however, had the presence of
mind to lie perfectly STILL and the
horses either swerved aside or leaped
| over his PROSTATE form.
| Then, when the living whirlwind had
| PASSED he rose and strollei down the
| course toward the winning post, in APP
| pearance not one whit the worse for his
| terrible experience. On the other hand,
! NARROW, the jockey who rode Nettle. the
| Oaks favorite of ten years later, thrown
! in g. precisely similar manner, attempted
/ to rise, was knocked down oy the imme-
| dSately following horse, and terribly hurt.
Nearly everyone has heard of the gal
| liant feat of jockeyshlp performed by the
! late Ben Smith. who rode and won a
race with broken leg. Less well known
| however, is the similar feat accomplished
| by O. horse-the game Dundee, favorite
for the Derby Of 1861. This splendid anil
NAL, after having been freely backed
| for enormous sums at the shortest of
| ODDS, was badly hurt through colliding
| with another horse ere the distance
had been reached. He, however, kept
| well in the running, and actually finished
second, although ruined for life so far