BROKEN LEG

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 166, 4 October 1927, Page 13

BROKEN LEG

DEATH OF ALLOWAY PROMISING HANDICAP PERFORMER While galloping on the course proper at Ellerslie this morning the Limond gelding Alloway broke a leg, and subsequently had to be destroyed. Alloway was paired with another Wanganui horse in Mask, and they were sent out over a brisk seven furlongs. The pace was on from the start, and what looked like being one of the best gallops of the morning did not finish as expected.

Whether it was the pace that began to tell or not, the fact remains that a hundred yards from the finishing post Alloway began to flounder, and he rolled over on to Mask. This happened twice in a very short distance. THE ACCIDENT

At last Alloway got behind his companion, and, labouring heavily and stumbling all the way, it was all that

his rider, H. Wiggins, could do to get him past the last trestle on the course; and, indeed, he nearly crashed into it. When his rider dismounted at the post it was at once seen that it was a case with the horse, for the near foreleg was broken between the knee and the fetlock. A veterinary surgeon was at once sent for, and on Mr. W. C. Ring examining the injury it was decided to destroy the horse. This was done, the humane killer being used. OWNER'S BAD LUCK Mr. L. G. Paul, a well-known Wanganui sportsman, was the owner of Alloway, and he trained the horse himself, this being his hobby.' Mr. Paul was not present this morning, but had made arrangements to come North on Thursday to see Alloway run in the valuable Mitehelson Cup. Not so very long ago Mr. Paul refused 1,500 guineas for the gelding, and when asked to put a price on him, not wishing to sell, he said 2,000 guineas. The owner races for the love of the game,, and it would have taken a lot of money to induce him to part with his favourite. A GOOD PERFORMER By the successful sire Limond out of a good sprinter in Admyra, Alloway had done well in his brief career on the turf, for he started racing a little over 12 months ago. His first victory was achieved at Feilding last year, when he surprised even his owner and paid a dividend of nearly a quarter of a century. He won thraa races after this, and on each occasion the totalisator return was a remunerative one. One of the best performances «f Alloway was when he finished third to Commendation, and Lysander in the Gireaf Northern Derby at Ellerslie, just prior to which he succeeded in the Fergusson Handicap. More recently Alloway finished second to Nukumai in the Parliamentary Handicap at Trentham, and at Wanganui a month ago he filled a similar position each day to Mask and then Tresham. Only a four-year-old, there was plenty of scope for improvement in the Limond gelding’s racing condition, and but for the unfortunate accident this morning that terminated his career he would most probably have developed into a splendid handicap horse.