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VICTORY, THEN DEATH.

Horse Races Home on Three Legs. LONDON, April 27. The thirteen-year-old hurdler Boomlet was running in a race at Worcester. It blundered at one fence and jumped the remaining two badly and finished on three legs. It had won, but collapsed with a broken hind x ?.d was destroyed, almost amid tL\ i 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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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 752, 4 May 1933, Page 1

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VICTORY, THEN DEATH. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 752, 4 May 1933, Page 1

VICTORY, THEN DEATH. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 752, 4 May 1933, Page 1