BLENHEIM.
This day.
At the Ken wick Boxing Day sports, yesterday, Beauchamp, rider of Billy Button in the Hurdle Bace, fell, horse and man coming down together at the fifth flight out of six hurdles. He was laid insensible, bleeding from the mouth. For some time people thought he was killed, and Doctors Home and Cleghorn were sent for from Blenheim. A few minutes after the occurrence the boy revived, and when the doctors came on to the ground they pronounced him out of danger, but that he had experienced, a slight concussion of the brain and was much shaken and bruised. He was struck on the head by the horse's hoof. Robinson, rider of the horse just ahead, seeing what occurred, pulled up and went to the assistance of his comrade and lost his chance of the race. He was much applauded for his humanity by the spectators, but it is said to be against all racing rules.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3077, 27 December 1878, Page 2
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159BLENHEIM. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3077, 27 December 1878, Page 2
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