The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-14
RECALLING SAD
 DEATHS ON TRACK
Fatalities to Horses That Caus-
 ed Unusual Scenes
TURFMAN GIVES INCIDENTS
The Crowd Displays Sympathy, With Stable Boy InconsoIable Over Aecl- ghbaIl Willing to Race
 on With a Broken Leg.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 At the Benning meeting a couple of years ago horse met his death in full view of thousands of persons in the grand stand He wasn't much of an animal. viewed from the standpoint of what the turfman calls class but he was a will- ing and game little colt-by Ornament that always did the best he knew.
 The field in which the colt ran was a big one. and right within ten yards of the wire the little horse. getting the worst of lot of extremely rough riding, was jam med against the inner rail. His right front foot struck hard against the bottom of rail post, and the colt was done for. His ankle was so shattered that the bones protruded.
 The field swept past the judges stand, the doomed colt bravely trying to hobble on three legs after the flying horses. But the agony was too great for him, and he propped himself pitiably against the rail and whinned
 At a nod from the judges stand track policeman stepped across the course, pull ed his service gun, and. in full sight of the great holiday crowd in the grand stand. put bullet between the suffering colts eyes.
 The colt leaped into the air, with much the same sort of a convulsive forward fling as Is made by man planted against a wall and shot at by a rifie-armed exc cution party, and fell over on his side, dead.
 Boy Is lnconsolable.
 A little while after the colt had fallen, and the crowd had gone away from the track a midget of a seventy-pound stable boy, a freckled-face type, still in his childhood for all his brave showing on the backs of race horses. who had ridden the low-lying colt on the occasion of the only victory the horse had ever achieved, raced across the field from the stables, knuckling his eyes, from which the tears were streaming.
 tumbled beneath the rail out upon the track, and fell in heap across the dead colts neck, sobbing with all the wildness Of a childs despair.
 Even the self-contained turfmen stand ing around couldn't refrain from coughing bit suspiciously behind their hands at that genuinely affecting picture.
 The death on New York track by a similar accident, of that marvellous thor cughbred Highball, a couple of seasons ago, was a thing that nobody who wit ressed it could ever forget.
 No man or woman with normal sense of pity, viewing the helpless misery of the hon-hearted Highball-willing, as he whinnied that he was to go on and con- tinue his race on the three legs left to him. and with his doom upon him-will ever be able quite to efface the moving and painful impression of that scene
 One of the veteran trainers, man who through all the changing years at the game has never lost a certain well known sympathetic twist for the horses that he has sent out to do battle for fame and money, was speaking the other day of some tragic wind-ups of race horses that had come under his own observation.
 'sThe most doleful thing of that kind ever saw he said, was the finish of certain great horse at Chicago about ten years ago. am not going to mention the name of the horse, because the man who owned him is right here now, and. how ever much he may deserve to have the story given the widest publicity I don't feel that I ought to be the one to level the dart at him.