TRAGIC ENDINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 5

TRAGIC ENDINGS.

FOUR RACEHORSES LOST. CORBETT FAMILY'S ILL-LUCK. j When Huskie staggered and fell, then I breathed his last, just after passing the finishing post in the Great Northern Steeplechase on Thursday last at Ellerslie, the death of the chestnut would mean a severe loss to his owner, Mr. P. Corbett, because, but for the gelding's tragic end, he had excellent chances of winning one or more of the substantial; stakes attached to important jumping! events during the winter months.

Sportsmen were not slow to extend their sympathy to *Mr. Corbett in his loss, but it was no new experience for the Corbett family, as in a very short period four of their horses have come to untimely endings. Mussie, a mare by Day Comet—Pet, raced in one or other of the Corbett | family's colours, and dropped dead not long since. • Lia Fail, a smart filly by Chief Ruler —Miss Sphinx, dropped dead when contesting a race at a meeting at Matamata. Just' previously Lia Fail had won three races in succession, and she was a galloper of no mean ability. The third" to be owned by members of the family, and to be destroyed, was the useful .jumper Emancipation, and last week Huskie was the fourth horse to come to a tragic end.