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regularly go across country year after year, 

 and then compare that number with the cases 

 of fatal accident, we shall find the death-rate 

 a very low one. Beside the few cases I have 

 already mentioned, I may just recall that 

 within the last twenty years or so, the Hon. 

 Greville Nugent ('' Mr. St. James "), one of the 

 pluckiest little horsemen ever seen — he never 

 weighed eight stone in his life — and Mr. 

 Goodwin have been killed at Sandown ; and 

 Lord Eossmore on the Windsor course, while 

 riding Harlequin. Lord Eossmore was too 

 tall for a jockey, though a bold, good horse- 

 man ; he had been terribly unlucky in getting 

 dangerous falls for some time before his fatal 

 ride. Sandown was also the scene of fatal 

 accidents to Clay, the professional, and to 

 Captain Boyce. It was a remarkable cir- 

 cumstance that Captain Boyce rose from his 

 fall with apparently little injury. He re- 

 turned to the stand, dressed, and went up to 

 town by train, dined at his club, and a few 

 hours after going to his rooms was suddenly 

 taken ill and expired. A horse called Coercion 



