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• , | , , ] , , , , , . j , . . , . , . " . JOHN PORTER AND HOLOCAUSTES FATE LONDON, England. February 22. — Many incidents about John Porters racing expeiiences come in the wake of the great trainers death. Flying Fox was the last of the seven horses Porter saddled to win the Derby in 1S99. Those who remember that race recall the controversy that took place as to whether Holocauste. the French candidate, hut for a fatal accident, would not have come in first. John Porter is quite impartial on the point. He quotes the description given after the race by Tod Sloan, who rode Holocansle. "We crossed the tan road with Flying Fox well beaten by this time, anil Holocauste nut having been called on for any effort at all.. Suddenly something happened. I thought I had been cut into. There was a shock, and it was as much as I could do to keep in my saddle. The |Kior beggar rolled from side to side, but he didnt come down, as many have asserted lie did. He was a horrible sight with his leg broken off short. In fact, the ataaaa was sticking in the ground." Holocauste was, of course, destroyed. Of the affair Porter sagely remarks: "What would have happened if Holocauste had not come to gilef is, after all. a matter of conjecture."
