The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-20

"On that particular day the horse had drawn second position and Ogilvie was on the rail, astride a Ally owned by MT. Richards of Boston. without any pre- monitory warning the stallion sprang across the intervening space of perhaps To feet and before Starter Fitzgerald or any of his crew could realize 1t the stall lion had seized the right fcot of the boy in his teeth and was mangIing it with all the sayagry of wild beast.
 The boy gave one sharp cry of fright when the horse grabbed him and was then still. Fitzgerald sprang from the stand and picking up a heavy crop be- longing to one of his men dealt the horse terrific blow back of the ear. The stall lion half closed his eyes and swayed as though he were about to fall but 1t took two additional blows to make him re- lease the foot.
 Picking the boy up in his arms the starter carried the now almost uncon- scious jockey to his wagon and hurried him to the care of the track physician The foot hung limp and every bone and ligament was broken or torn; in fact, the mass was pulp. The steel stirrup was bent as though it had been subjected to the most terrific pressure and there is no doubt that Ogilvie would have lost his foot but for it.
 ''As it was that boy was in the hospital from the middle of April until the be- ginning of October. and that he is able to walk around today is due simply to the skill of the surgeon who treated him at St. Mary's hospital and saved the foot after half dozen intricate opera tions"
 The case of the English pockey Otto Madden who was savaged while on the way to the post is pAralleled in this coun- try. Old timers will recall that Juggler, the pride of Guttenburg, took the then diminutive Spider Anderson, who was riding Fides, the apple of the elder Bel mont's eye, out of the saddle in front of the stand at Gravesend and after shaking him as terrier would rat dropped him upon the track. The cumulative dispo- stion of horses in races has on more than one occasion caused casualties 1t was the attempt of St. Leonards to seize the horse next to him in race at Sheepshead Bay that caused the death of Pop Barrett, one of the cleverest iightweights ever seen in America. The big son of St. Blaise crossed his legs in his futile effort to reach his near est competitor and he fell hurling Bar rett beneath the feet of a big field of colts and Allies. The little chap was as delicate as a girl anyway and when they picked him up there was a smile on his warm face and a gash across his temple where a flying hoof, had brushed away his life
 It made some of the veterans who knew Danny Maher smile when they read an extract from an English journal the other day about the patience shown by the American in handling Bayardo and his diplomacy in getting the crack British 9 f,l1 fa 4o ha hxr triv ,,r him around by the Rowley mile back of the stands and out of sight of the crowds.
 When Danny was riding in this country he was not noted for his sweetness of temper. The great rider a small boy had violent temper, as his full black brows meeting across the bridge of his strong nose would indicate The drub- ping he gave Banastar in the suburban when the horse wheeled at the start will never be forgotten by those who saw it.
 Every person must admit that Maher had strong provocation, for the cunning horse would apparently be under full headway and like flash he,would dig his toes in the ground, whirl to, the left and go the wrong way of the track. With the present system of starting in vogue when Banastar was running the horse would be left at the post nine times out of 10. Maher was beside himself when the horse whirled on that memorable hay at Sheeps- head Bay, and he beat the liver-colored chestnut son of Farandole until he was covered with bumps as big as hens eggs everywhere the jockey could reach him with the whip.
 When he went to England, Maher was warned that the turf authorities there were particularly severe on riders who punished their mounts unnecessarily, and he did not offend the first season he rode abroad. The next year, however, he ale most lost his license for this fault, and the warning he received then has had a wholesome effect apparently.
 There is no jockey that has made more consistently brilliant record abroad than this modest young man from Connecticut, and that he won victory overAhis nat