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■ v REMARKABLE RECOVERIES When a race horse breaks a leg its destruc- tion is customary, but more than once it has paid to save it if possible. Swynford was in slings two years consequent on a broken leg. He eventually made such a good recovery that it was possible to use him at the stud, and he has been a great success. It is also mentioned by a London exchange that a steeplechaser named Father Collins broke a leg, but he was patched up, and subsequently won at three miles. When New Hope fractured a small bone in Sydney last ye.r his destruction was contemplated, but he is again quite sound, and though he has not run up to expectations in his recent races, has shown excellent track form.
