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LOSES OMAR KHAYYAM COLT LEXINGTON, Ky., September 4. Mrs. Louise Viau sustained a heavy loss when the suckling colt by Omar Khayyam Embroidery, by Celt, broke his right hind leg during the severe storm early Sunday morning and later in the day was destroyed by Dr. E. W. Hagyard at Arthur B. Hancocks Claiborne Stud in Bourbon County. This colt was a brother to the chestnut colt for which the Quincy Stable gave ,000 at the auction at Saratoga August 4 of the yearlings by Omar Khayyam that A. B. Hancock had purchased from Mrs. Viau by a Kentucky winner and from a great stake mare.
