DEATH IN VICTORY
HORSE ON THREE LEGS. London, April 27. The 13-year-old hurdler Boomlet while running in a race at Worcester blundered at one fence and jumped the remaining two badly and finished on three legs. It had won, but collapsed with a broken hind leg and was destroyed, almost amid the cheers which acclaimed its victory.
A veterinary surgeon says that a horse, like a human being, might be so keen to win that it did not realise its pain.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1933, Page 7
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