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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TETRARCH. Ever since The Tetrarcn was retired from racing last year, veiled allusions to some accident that lie experienced have appeared from time to .time in English turf publications, without in any case naming the actual occurence. Recently, however, the Newmarket correspondent of London Sportsman gave the following explanation of the case: "All our leading three-year-olds have wintered well; in fact, I have not heard of one being sick or sorry throughout the recess. On looking over Corcyra the other morning I could not help noticing his improved appearance, for lie is filling out into a very fine thrce-vear-old, which brings lo my mind a matter of interest iu connection with his great rival. The Tetrarch. During the week a gentleman who is interested In the flying grey wrote to me to say that the colt is wintering well, and that be does not thiuk there is much doubt about his being trained this year. Certainly he did meet with a mishap last autumn, for in pulling up after a gallop he overreached himself and hit a fore tendon sharply, with the result that he had to be stopped In his work and had the actual cautery applied to the place in the shape of what is known as pin firing. The colt is, he says, now as sound as ever he was, and It is to be hoped he will continue to keep so. for though if he does he will be Iu the way of all our best three-year-olds, noue of us would like to see a good horse go wrong. That he is a smasher none who ever saw him race can doubt."
