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Show JOCKEY HAS LEFT LEG BROKEN CROWDED INTO THE RAIL IN THE THIRD RACE. Chris Miller, Young Man Riding Tom Shaw, Has His Leg Nearly ' Tprn Off. The races Tuesday were not without some sensational incidents. inci-dents. In the third race Tom Shaw, owned by A. F. Dayton, was crowded into the fence on the first turn, the first time round and Jockey Chris Miller had his leg jammed jam-med against the rail and it was fractured frac-tured in two places. Despite tho excruciating ex-cruciating pain he must have suffered he stuck to his mount until ho was able to pull him up when bo dismounted. dis-mounted. Ho was hastily carried to the Jockey room and subsequently was sent to the hospital in an automobile. auto-mobile. Miller was in the employ of Mr. Dayton, having been connected with the latter's stable for years. Ho has ridden over nearly every race track in the United States and has many creditable victories to his record. rec-ord. Late last night Mr. Dayton, Miller's employer, who accompanied the Injured In-jured Jockey to the hospital, stated that the operation in setting tho fractures, frac-tures, both of which, were below the knee, were very successful and the attending surgeons, which used modern mod-ern methods in performing the operation, op-eration, stated that unless some un-looked un-looked for complications set In that the lad would be up and about in six weeks. Notwlthbtandlng the many rumors which prevailed in resorts last night that Miller's injuries embraced em-braced a broken shoulder bone and internal injuries Mr.. Dayton said that only the two fractures were tho result re-sult of the accident. Miller was un-Jcr un-Jcr the Influence of ether during the setting of the fractures and the first words he said when he came out from the narcotic's InRuence was, "well I nearly got through." In the same race Cobblesklll, a 5-year-old gelding, which has brackets to his credit at the present meeting bled while running up the back stretch and went down in a heap, throwing his rider, Manders, very heavily. However, tho boy escaped with a shaking up, but it was his second spill of the meeting. The gelding geld-ing quickly recovered and was led off the tiack, none the worse for the loss of blood. Mr. Kelley is harrassed by doubts as to whether the Ogden track is a Jonah to his horses, or whether his jockey, ManJers, is a Jonah to both his horses and the track. In the first day's racing at this city, Mr. Kelley's horse, Mazapan, went down in the midst of an exciting finish in the home stretch and the jockey, while not seriously injured, received the only injuries that came to tho share of the Kelley stable on that day. Kelley's horse, Sea Green, has been in no trouble upto-date, although the owner is by this time prepared for the worst. |