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Show Owner Explains Why Horse Had Odd Name Among the horses which ran in the College Handicap steeplechase l Windsor, Kngland, recently was om named Escaped Lunatic. 'T gave the horse that rather queer name because I myself was once hunted for high and low as an escaped lunatic," said Mr. Fleet Coldsmilh, u former Hampshire county councilor, who owns Ihe horse. "I was an inmate of I'ark I'rewett asylum near I'.asingstoke. "From" there I escaped one night during a motion pielure performance, and despite a keen hunt I kept clear for the statutory period of . fourteen days, after which the authorities could not claim mo without issuing a new certificate. "When I bought this horse the name Escaped Lunatic took my fancy." . |