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WHAT A THOROUGHBRED WILL STAND. 111 commenting on remarkable recoveries made by race horxes after receiving injuries almost necessitating their deslro.val, "Alankato." m the .Manchester Sporting Chronicle, instance; the case of a inure named Grecian .Maid, which won the- Nottingham Handicap in October. In April of last year, wlieil being sent from Notheravon to Penrith, she fell down between the loading platform and some adjacent wagons. In this situation she was held as in a vice, and though improvised slings and blocks wore requisitioned, all efforts to raise the mare proved abortive. Something had to he doue, and so It wus decided to bring up a light engine and haul out the wagon, which was one of a series standing in -the loading dock. In its passage the wagon tore great chunks- of skin and muscle out of the mares side and quarter, while the side next I lie platform was brriscd and scarred in shocking fashion. With the removal of the binding wagon Grecian Maid- troubles were by no means over. She had still to be hauled up to the landing dock, and In getting her then? more damage was done. Tills time it was the mares legs which suffered most. Altogether she was a sad object three hours later, though the railway companys veterinary surgeon lltiil don" all l-o coujd to relieve her sufferings and. to make her Injuries look as presentable as possible. How she managed to walk from the stn-ioii to the livery stables over a quarter of a mile listnilt is a mystery. Though no bone were broken, there were clear idicatloiis that Grecian Maids liver and kidneys !iad not escaped unhurt, and that the muscles sitn-ted on the lower side of the loin vertebra were criously Involved. In her predicament any horse ther than a thoroughbred would have made no at-empt to tund. let alone place one foot before nother. Vet this mare bore up gamelv day after lay, .unaided by slings which could riot be used n uecount of the injuries to her side and internal "gatlS. In less than .two months time from the late of "the accident she had recovered sutlicientlv o ndinlt of her removal to Penrith, and on October - she ran second to Over Anxious In a mile and a ialf race at Edlnlmrgh, and nine days later wen at Ilayilock Park.
