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» FLAG POLE MAY NEVER | I RACE AGAIN NEW YORK, N. Y.. June 6.— There is grave doubt of the Brookmeade Stables Flag Pole ever being seen under silks again. He came out of the running of the Belmont Stakes Saturday badly bowed in two legs. He pulled up lame at the end of the long, trying gallop, but the extent of his injury was not discovered until later. When Flag Pole hung himself across the starting stalls it was evident he had hurt himself, but that accident was not altogether the cause of the tendons bowing, according to Bob Smith, his trainer. He said that Flag Pole had a leg that was under suspicion last year, but the colt trained so well this season that there was no thought of his breaking down in the race. Smith said that Flag Pole was pounds better than any horse he had ever, trained and was capable of working faster than other horses raced. Smith put the entire blame for the post mishap on the colt himself. As a result of the mishap a foreleg was cut over a tendon and this may have contributed towards his breaking down during the race. Fields, who rode Flag Pole, said that the second injury came just as he was making his move going to the stretch turn. Flag Pole faltered badly, to finish the race as he did and save third was a marvelously game performance. The loss of the colt is a serious blow to the Brookmeade Stable, for he had been liberally engaged in various prizes and, but a short time ago, he was named for the Classic of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, not having been named in the original closing of the rich prize.
