RACEHORSE BURNED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 8

RACEHORSE BURNED.

TWO i)i:si-.1) AND s;CV;:I:AI* 'it ova i, !..\:,!.y m;i!.\j;a l!y 'r<'i j-v.t':; .e. i ; r<-€3 Association. Auckland, yesterday. A lire brr-hoal at l!-1■ i'arp of Kriu lacing stable-, ICliersiie, |a,,t liig'nt, apparently in a iced box. ]l lmd a good ■hold when discovered. The boxen con- , lie i.ifn ti'-i'i quartered there welt- padlocked, but the doors were burst open and th» horses got out ns quickly as possible. , It iiM.i f'limd that Phroso, the valtihurdle mars;, owned by G. tf. Moore, was incinerated. When the door of 1-ady Mensc-hikoH's tiox was hur-a open the mar.", mml with pain ami terror, ami unite blind, galloped round the yard and paddock with her man," and tail blazing and the cover On her back burning liercely. When ah#, was caught mid an attempt made to remove t'h • burning cover the skip came \ oil' wich it. The animal was ill great agony, and Dr. Ring. veterinary surgeon, ordered her to he .shot. The mare was owned by 1). Thompson, of Wanganui. Royal Anns, owned by Mr. .lervis George, of New Plymouth, .was badly burned about the head and neck, but will recover. Denise Orine was similarly burned about tlio neck and • tail. Crown Pearl was cut and bruised bjr running into a fence during the mad stampede that followed tho opening of the doors. T)n> horses rushed about tie yard screaming witli pain and terror, out eventually all were seemed uid <IUH-:t lied . • i \ Kast., i'nity and Clied'iiar escaped injury.