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Show I . Injuria to Circus Horses. We had to kill between twenty and thirty horses during the season on account ac-count of - irreparable damage done to them during the hippodrome races. ' As they are turning the corners very often the outside horse receives a blow from the hub of the wheel of the chariot next to it. This causes fracturo or splitting of the fetlock, after which the horse isof . no further use. Neither Mr. Barnum nor I believe in prolonging the agony of an animal in that condition, so directly a horse is found with such a fracture he is taken out and shot. Thus, as I said, about thirty horses were killed, Mr, Bailey in Pall Mall Gazette. |