The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-18
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10 10 The greatest thoroughbred ev"S m
cpvered In thla country u head Fof
months. IN TO-, evef alnce Tho racing season
h-san hefc, ihese have bcen ~ sorts ~
ffBofs c%puccrulna sysooby'a CONDITION and
~ ~ tho tn,r nstifr N he %ailfuent. bnt
zach day therv rame encouraging state
menta from the e,able that hc wa doing
wall and would probably bc himself aeain
Fairly Saturday morning syronby began.
60 show alans that he waa q very sick horss
indeed. Jimmy Rove. the trimmer, hurrIedly
aen' for Jamea n. Keene, thu horse's wi
Dr William Sheppard, tho S~hcepshsad
Hay veterinarian. who had treated sysonby
ne tlnes, was also summoned 10 the stable.
just outside Of the sheepshead Hay track.
with no show whatever n his fro and
dash, Sysonby lay stretched out In his
stall. his eyes nd and watery, his cara
dropped and his big chest hcavinG with his
difficult breath. Tho horses temperature
was taken and found to be 1906. When this
discovery was made Trainer Rowe, Mr..
Keene and DR.. Sheppard looked at ono an
other for a time without saying o word.
Something was very wrong.
All hands knew that the thoroughbred
had been suffering for a long time from an
aggravated eczema, but why this terrific
fever none could understand. Everything
that couk4 be done for a horse was done,
but Sysonby grew steadily weaker m by
nightfall II was thought that he would die
any minute. He rallied, however, and
seemed to improve during the night.
Yesterday morning the fever increased
again and the condition Of the horse became
such that DR.. Sheppard sent for DR.. r. w.
McCully Of this city. When DR.. MoCully
got to Sheepshead Bay Sysonby was dead.
He had died at 1 o'clock In the afternoon.
Mr.. Keene was 80 shocked over the death
Of his great horse that he could hardly
speak. He ordered a post-mortem exami-
nation to determine just what had caused
the death of the horse that had won in less
than two years SITS, 873.34 in stakes alons.
DIS. Sheppard and McCully set about the
post-mortem.
What they found out showed conclusively
that the horse didn't die Of the skin disease
that he has been treated for for the past
several months. Death was caused by
blood poisoning that had originated In q
badly bruised frog of the right forefoot.
The skin affection had been the remote
cause, it is surmised, for the horse had
stamped in his stall to express his distaste
for the itching Of his skin. The frog had
been terribly bruised. There is a mesh OF
small blood vessels there. An absoess formed
and the entire coronet was found to be full
Of pus. The spleen and liver were found
to be greatly enlarged, but the huge lungs
and stout heart of the horse were unaf
fected.
When Sysonby first showed symptoms
of the skin trouble soon after training be-
gan this spring, Mr.. Keene was dissatis-
fled with the progress the thoroughbred
was making toward recovery and had his
own physician, Di. Charles BGrrows Of
8 West Thirty-sixth street, attend the horse.
DR.. Barrows and another physician went
about treating Sysonby for the eczema
very much as il he we're a human being.
The veterinarians concluded yesterday
that the horse must have been suffering
from the abscess for some time.
Many horsemen called on Mr.. Keene at
the Waldorf last night to express their
regrets. He said repeatedly that if he
lived to be 1000 years old he could never
get another Sysonby.
at wouldn't be so regrettable, said Mr..
Keene, IF he had had a season in the stud,
so that some of his progeny might be left
to repeat his records. That would have
been some consolation, but now the great
Sysonby is orly a memory"
The horse was temporarily buried at
S~heepshead Bay after the autopsy ed been
performed yesterday afternoon.
There is much silly sentiment expressed
by the heartless people when they hear
that a mar respects the memory Of n horse
or other animal 20 which he he's been de-
voted in life" said a veteran trainer who
spent most OF the evening in Mr.. keene's
room. Mr., Keene doesn't want to arouse
any Of that, but 1t is possible that he will
treat Sysonby as he did Domino, when
that horse died in 1900. Domino died at
the Castleton stud and was taken to the
Dixiana stock farm, where he was born,
and buried there, a handsome monument
being erected over his grave. Sysonby
was born at the Castleton stock farm in
Kentucky, and il his bones are not mounted,
az those Of other great racehorses have
been, and set up in some museum he will
doubtless be buried there
Mr.. Keene repeatedly told his friends
last night that he wouldn't have parted
with Sysonby for any money consideration.
He had many offers, the last being that Of
Reed Walker, the wealthy English horse
man, whose trainer offered 40, 900 ~guineas.
over $500 600, for Sysonby last winter. Ths
horse was insured for 500 900.
No trainer will deny that had Sysonby
been himself this season he would have
romped away with all the big stakes for
four-year-olds and upward. While the
great horse lay painting and putting out his
life in the stall yesterday trainers were
jogging strings Of horses on the Sheepshead
Bay track. The thump Of their hoofs could
be heard almost in S~ysonby's stall. but It Is
doubtful II any among those that were
being muscle hardened on the track will
over accomplish what the great son Of
Melton did in his time. 1t will probably
be some years before any horse is shown
here who can ~spreadeagle his field for q
mile and then run the next eighth in u is,
as Sysonby did in the Lawrence Realization
on July 4 last year.