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SIXTEEN HORSES FALL IN AUSTRALIAN RACE. The ni"s disastrous accident in the matter of horse* falling in a race leaa v.leii Oraee Darling won tlie Caullielil Cup last mouth at gydaey. Australia. Then- were forty -one raaaera on that occasion ami sixteen horses fell approaching tic home turn. The luhtweight jockey. Donald Nicholson, was fatally Injured, dying almost immediately. Several other tockeya wen- inlored, 1 the colt. larah. killed. Last month, in the trial Stak. s. at Roscfaili, another Australian track, twelve horses fell at once, but fortunately no fatality resulted. Twenty-nine horses started in this race.
