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 tho 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 7
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81DEATH IN VICTORY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 7
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