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THACKRAY S CAREER ENDED Special Correspondence. LONDON, England.— It is feared that the young English amateur, Fred Thackray, will never be seen in the saddle again, although it is expected that he will regain his normal health in the course of time. He is making steady progress at his fathers home at Reading, where he was recently removed from a Liverpool nursing home. While riding Mrs. M. A. Gemmelts Gregalach in the Grand National, and while in a prominent position in the race, a riderless horse jumped across Gregalachs path at one of the fences, sending him down heavily, and giving Track-ray such a hard fall that for fourteen days he was unconscious and in a precarious condition. The unfortunate horseman had no bones broken. It was thirty-seven days after the National race before he could be moved from Liverpool to his home at Reading. Fred Thackray is still suffering from loss of memory. He cannot recall the accident on Gregalach in the Grand National, or any other incident for three months before that race.
