Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-23 | Page 1 | Dead Horse to Serve Science

DEAD HORSE TO SERVE SCIENCE Skeleton of Famous Race Horse Probably Will Be Presented Pre-sented to York Museum of Natural History. NEW YORK, June 23. To ". offer made by the governors of Coney Island Jockey club to set aside a plot of ground on the property of that organization or-ganization at Sheepshead bay :is a permanent grave for the famous racehorse race-horse Sysonby. which died last Sun- i day, anil to erect a memorial stone. Syionby's owner. James R. Keene, has replied thanking the club officers for their courtesy, but stating that he has not decided definitely what disposition shall he made of Sysonby's body. J. H. Bradford, treasurer of the Coney Island Jockey club, said yesterday yester-day that in Mr. Keene's letter of acknowledgment ac-knowledgment he stated that he was considering the matter of having Sysonby's Sy-sonby's body exhumed and the skeleton skele-ton saved and articulated, the frame of the horse to be presented to the New York Museum of Natural History. His-tory. In America two other famous race-horses whose skeletons are serving serv-ing science and students of natural history are American Eclipse and Llngton. in the Smithsonian institution, institu-tion, at Washington.