A STALLION FIGHT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1849, 5 February 1889, Page 4

A STALLION FIGHT.

There occured at the Knox country (Ind) fair, the ether day, a scene never before witnessed by the oldest resident and one that will be remembered to their dying day by every one who saw it. It was a rattling fight between two stallions. The animals were being exhibited when a team of horses ran away and darted among the blood stock. Instantly all was commotion, the blooded mares began neighing, which two stallions seemed to interpret as a sort of battle cry. They broke away from their keepers and dashed at each other like mad. Both snorted terribly, and the fire seemed to flash from their eyes. With great energy they bit each others necks, pawing and tearing up the ground for a. space of twenty feet. At last by some means they got loose, and each backing a few feet, they whirled and commenced kicking each other. The sharp corks on the hind shoes drew blood from the flanks of each and left enormous welts and cuts. Then one of them, with an instinct that seemed human, suddenly whirled to the right and grabbed his opponent by the neck, trying at the same time to get his fore feet upon his shoulders. They struggled and struggled, the sweat and blood pouring from their wounds. The farmers about were panic-stricken. A' couple of cowboys got stout ropes and tried to lasso them. This was no easy effort, and attended with considerable danger. Before it was accomplished the animals made a final vicious dash at each other, and, while linked in each other’s ferocious embrace the cowboys got in their work and succeeded in securing them. They were delivered over to the keepers, who led them away covered with blood limping, lame, and sore. Ho such scene ever before transpired in the vicinity and it is the talk of the country,,