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SYSONBY DIES OF BLOOD POISONING AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY. , Sysonby, James R. Keenes Incomparable race horse is dead. The illustrious four-year-old son of Melton Optline succumbed to septicaemia, or blood poisoning, in Mr. Keenes stable at Sheepshead Bay, Sunday morning last, expiring while the owner, who loved him to the extent that he had pronounced him priceless, stood by. Early in the spring Sysonby was, afflicted with a disease of the skin, which at first was lightly regarded, but later along it spread to the extent that trainer Rowe saw that it would be 1 impossible to get the great horse ready for any of his early 1005 engagements. He was declared out of these. The veterinarians held out b o p e, however, that be would round to in time, for the Brooklyn or the Suburban, but as the days wore on it was seen that his starting in these events would 1k Impossible. A little later Mr.Keene announced, that while the great horse was doing nicely, he would not be able to race at all this year. It was confidently believed up to last Saturday that Sysonby would come around all right and there was no suspicion that there w a s none could understand. Sunday morning the fever Increased alarmingly and the condition of the horse became such that Dr. Sheppard called for Dr. B. W. McCully from New York city. By the time the latter readied Sheepshead Bay, Sysonby was dead. Mr. Kcene ordered a post-mortem to learn just what had en used the death. The doctors found out the horse did not die of the skin disease, but that death bad come through septicaemia, or blood 1 poisoning, that had originated in a badlv bruised anything more . serious the matter with him than that which was shown on the surface of his body, but when a fever developed Saturday morning, trainer Uowe sent for Mr. Keene and Dr. William Sheppard, the veterinarian, was called hurriedly. Dr. Sheppard found ah extremely sick animal. With no show whatever of his fire and dash, Sysonby lay stretched out in his stall, his eyes red and watery, his ears drooped down, and gasping for breath. His temperature was found to be 105. Why this terrible fever frog of the right foreleg. The skin affection had primarily been the cause of death, inasmuch as the horse had stamped in his stall while suffering from an itching skin trouble, and the frog was bruised. The a u t o p s y showed the eczema had nothing to do with his condl-t i o n Internally. The spleen and liver were found to be greatlv enlarged, but his huge lungs and and stout heart were unaffected. The horse must have been suffer-, ing for w e e k s from an accumulation of pus on the right foreleg, ami that all this time this poison was eating into li I s ., . system, is now evident. That those attending Sysonby were Ignorant of this blood poisoning of the foreleg when a little early treatment could have saved the life of the great thoroughbred, makes the death of the horse all the more pathetic. Sysonby was bnried yesterday morning at Sheepshead Bay. Illness did not deter Mr. Keene from being present. The Interment is only temporary. The champions remains will finally rest near those ol Commando and Domino at Castleton Stud.
