INJURIES TO RACEHORSES
DASTARDLY- .TRICKS. Tho recent attempt to injure race horses at Newmarket, happily a ran incident nowadays, recalls many sucl dastardly tricks in days gone by when attempts to disable favorite, on the eve. of a race were quite com mon. For the Derby of 1832 even horse except Perion was drugged, ii spite : of the fact that not long be fore a man had been hanged a Cambridge for a similar offence. Mac gregor, as strong a favorite as eve. started in the Derby, would cer.tainh 'have won the "blue riband” in 187( if he Qiad not been poisoned on tin day; and in the same year (Sunshine was. similarly disabled for the Oaks Teddington would never have fount a place among Derby winners if Sii Joseph Hawley, his owner, had nol discovered and thwarted a plot tc drug him, and there is little douhi (says thel "YVestminister Gazette’” that when Orme was found prostrate in his box at Kingsclere on the eve ol the Derby of 1892, he had been poisoned. The Duke of Westminstei offered a reward of £IOOO for the conviction of the culprit, but, unfortunately, he was never discovered.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2390, 4 January 1909, Page 2
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196INJURIES TO RACEHORSES Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2390, 4 January 1909, Page 2
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