ROYAL MAIL DESTROYED
(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, May 23. It has just been learned that another Grand National winner is dead —the fifth this year. This time it is Royal Mail, a comparatively young horse whom E. Williams steered first past the post a£ Aintree in 1937. Royal Mail's fine career was marred by tragedy. He won the Grand National for Mr. Lloyd Thomas, who, although by no means a young man, decided to ride the horse himself in the 1938 race. When riding another horse at Derby, as' part of his preparation for the big race, Mr. Lloyd Thomas was thrown —and kiSed. The liorse was then sold to Mrs. C. Evans for 6500 guineas, and although he won a number of races for his new owner, things continually went against him. In the 1938 Grand National he broke a blood vessel and failed to finish the course. He never seemed to be quite the same horse again. In last year's event he ran again and finished ninth, but an accident kept him out of the race this year. In fact, he made no progress from it and had to be destroyed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 11
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