GAMENESS OF THOROUGH BREDS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 258, 4 December 1914, Page 11

GAMENESS OF THOROUGH BREDS.

WHAT THEY WILL ENDURE.

In commenting on remarkable recoveries made by racehorses after receiving injuries . almost necessitating destroyal, ;'' Mankato,•'' in the Manchester "Sporting Chronicle," instances the case of a mare named Grecian. Maid, who won the Handicap last October. In April of last yeir, when being ; stent from Netheravon to "{Penrith, she fell down between the loa;ding platform and some adjacent waggons. In this situation she was lield as in a vice, and though improvised slings and blocks were requisitioned all efforts to raise the mare proved abortive. Something had to be done, and so it was decided to bring up a light engine and haul out the waggon, which was one of a series standing in the loading dock. In its passage the waggon tore great chunks of skin and muscle out of the mare's side and quarter, while the side next the platform was bruised and scarred in shocking fashion. , . . With the removal of the binding waggon! Grecian Maid's troubles were by no > means over. She had still to be haiiled up on to the landing dock, and in jgettiug her there more damage was done. This time it was the mare's legs which suffered most. <" Altogether she was a sad object three hours later, tho-ugh the railway, company's veterinary surgeon had done all- he could to relieve her sufferings and to make her, injuries look as presentable; as possible.; How she had managed to walk from the station to the livery stables, over a quarter of a mile distant, is a mystery. . ■ , Though no bones »were .broken, there were.-, clear, indications -that Grecian Maid's liver and kidneys, had not escaped unhurt, and that the muscles situated on the lower' side of the loin vertebra were seriously involved. In her predicament any horse other than ft thoroughbred would have made no attempt to stand, let. alone place one foot before another. Yet this mare bore up gamely day after day, unaided