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THE WINDSOR STEEPLE CHASES. 
the other was a horse belonging to Mr. Newton, of Windsor. As 
all veterinarians now know, broken back consists in fracture of the 
bones of the spine — commonly of some of the posterior dorsal or 
anterior lumbar vertebrce. In the case of Jessie, the third, fourth, 
and fifth lumbar vertebrae were broken — the dorsal remaining 
whole — the fourth so shattered that the upper segment of its arch 
was completely destroyed, leaving the spinal marrow, for the space 
of some inches, exposed, or rather contused and crushed by the 
fragments of bone pressing upon it. The consequence, of course, 
was, entire loss of mobility and sensibility in the hind quarters : 
the mare had no power whatever of standing upon them — but, 
when they were raised and supported by men on either side of her, 
and she was made to step forward with her fore limbs, she dragged 
her hind parts, or rather they were carried, after her. Her owner, 
Captain Sutton, unwilling to believe her case hopeless, and most 
anxious that every thing should be done likely to relieve her, had 
her got into a shed that stood upon the race-course, and sent to the 
life Guards’ Barracks for slings and assistance : all, however, to 
no purpose. No sooner was she placed upon the suspension-girth, 
than, unsupported behind, she fell back, which the Captain witness- 
ing, no longer hesitated, but at once humanely ordered her to be 
shot in the shed. 
Of Mr. Newton’s horse, Napoleon, aged, who fell into 
other hands, hopes of recovery were given ; and therefore, with 
great care he was removed, upon one of Messrs. Reid’s low and 
convenient drays, into Windsor town, and deposited upon a com- 
fortable bed in Mr. Newton’s own stable. There, fresh-flayed 
sheep-skins were, without loss of time, applied to the loins, and 
every means taken which the parties in attendance imagined likely 
to benefit him. As in poor Jessie’s case, however, all was to no 
purpose. He, whose namesake had subdued empires, was doomed 
to death from a broken back. After suffering, for the remainder of 
that day and the following night, unremitting pain and agony, his 
his owner, persuaded that his case was desperate, gave the order 
for his execution, with an expression of regret that he had not done 
so before. The post-mortem inquiry proved his spine, also, to have 
been fractured. 
The fractured shoulder, which occurred in Lord Glamis’s 
STRANGER, presented some particulars worthy of notice. Like the 
two fractures of the spine, it occurred in leaping; but it happened 
in an unusual manner. Stranger, who was very narrow chested, 
in alighting, had pitched upon the ground with the off fore-foot 
ledged upon the side of the coronet of the near one, in which it had 
made a sad gash ; and the consequence was, the tilting of the body 
on one side, and the throwing of the entire weight upon the 
