HORSES' GRAVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 223, 20 September 1935, Page 6

HORSES' GRAVES.

The burial with simple ceremony by Major MeCalmont, at Mount Juliet, Kilkenny, of his famous racehorse The Tetrarch recalls the fact that many horses— some world famous, like some of Lord Rosebery's, which are buried at The Durdans, but others unknown beyond the families which owned them—have been given honoured graves (says a writer in the "Manchester Guardian"). A century ago, when Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's famous charger, which carried him for 10 hours during the Battle of Waterloo, died in retirement at Strathfieldsaye, the Duke gave him a military itinera!. T.li« b'>n. ours including a farewell salute fired over the grave, which is to-day marked by a handsome headstone. Copenhagen was an aristocrat —a grandson of the great Eclipse. But not long ago we had an instance at Heywood, Lancashire, of a humble horse which had pulled the roller for a generation of cricketers being given a simple funeral. This horse, which was believed to be 43 years old at the time of his death, was a great favourite with the crowd, and when he d'id in 1931 he was buried in a guiet corner cricket field.