184 TAKE HEED! 



FATAL ACCIDENTS TO RACING STALLIONS AND MARES. 



Men take physic, but never take WARNING. But the warning 1 voice must not be 

 silenced, since some few may hear and profit. 



An Arabian Stallion, imported at the expense of nearly one thousand pounds, 

 was killed at a Stable in Piccadilly, by a kick upon the testes by a Mare he 

 was leaping. 



Otho, sire of Dorimant, the best horse of his year at Newmarket, had his 

 thigh broken by a Mare, and was shot by order of his Proprietor, the late 

 Lord Ossory, at Ampshill, by the Game Keeper, the gun being charged with a 

 candle. 



King Herod died of a mortification in his sheath, occasioned by mere neglect and 

 nastiness, although a Stallion of such high consequence and worth, being suffered 

 to lie in his loose stable, with the dung and filth baked upon him ! 



The late Earl Grosvenor's Pantaloon, by Matchem, killed himself accidentally, 

 by jumping about in his Paddock at Knavestock, in Essex, shortly after we had 

 seen him there. 



In the old time, Mr. Pantons Molly, was matched against the Duke of Boltons 

 Terror, and to run two hours afterwards against Badger. Molly fell in running 

 the first match, and died in great agonies. 



Carver's Pincher running at Ipswich, was immediately after the race seized 

 with violent gripes, which we witnessing, have since judged, arose from inani- 

 tion, faintness, and the effects of cold upon the stomach and intestines; to 

 which the old custom of stinting horses too long before the race, and bringing 

 them to the starting post, feeble and too much reduced, may in all probability have 

 contributed. 



The Duke of Hamilton's bay Mare Crazy, in 1808 dropped down dead under the 

 Groom, in running a sweat at Ashton, near Lancaster. 



The Stallion Wizard, by Sorcerer, worth two thousand Pounds, killed himself 

 by running against a bar in the stable-yard, in 1813. 



Witchcraft, in the same year, worth six or seven hundred pounds, had his leg 

 broken by the kick of a mare, and was obliged to be shot. 



The black Horse, Thunderbolt, in his prime, aged thirteen years, got by 

 Sorcerer, full brother to Smolensko, a Stallion of the greatest size and reputation? 

 the property of Sir Charles Bunbury, of Great Barton, Suffolk, perished there, in 

 October 1819, in the following singular manner, against which no human prudence 

 could have guarded. He was found in the morning, cast in his loose stable, stifled, 

 his hip dislocated, and his head and body almost beaten to pieces by his struggles. 

 One of his fore hoofs was hitched fast, in the throat-band of his head-stall, which 



