Fidelity Of The Horse: Intelligent Animal Returns Home to Bring Succor to Master Lying Helpless in Woods., Daily Racing Form, 1923-01-17

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FIDELITY OF THE HORSE Intelligent Animal Returns Home to Bring Succor to Master Lying Helpless in Woods WoodsThe The American Turf Register of 1S33 prints the following instance illustrative of the sagacity and fidelity of tne horse horseA A friend of mine writes Professor Kru ger of Hale was one dark night riding home through a wood and had the misfor ¬ tune to strike his head against the branch of a tree and fell from his horse stunned by the blow The horse Immediately re ¬ turned to the house which they had left about a mile distant He found the door closed and the family retired to bed He pawed at the door till one of them hearing the noise arose and opened it To his sur ¬ prise he saw the horse of his friend No sooner was tne door opened than the horse turned round and the man suspecting there was something wrong followed the animal which led Mm directly to the spot where his master lay on the ground in a faint


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