Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1913 — AWARD RACE TO DEAD HORSE [ARTICLE]

AWARD RACE TO DEAD HORSE

National Board Declares The Eel Vl©tor In Free-for-All Pace at Hartford Meeting. A decision rendered by the board of review of the National Trotting association makes The Bel (2:0234), now dead, the winner of the free-for-all pace at the Hartford grand circuit meeting, September 4. It is the first instance on record of a dead horse winning a race. ‘ The race in which the winner remained in question until this decision, was contested by seven horses, as follows: Sir R. (Murphy), The Eel (McBwen), Don Deusmore (Parker), Branham Baughman (Cox), Hal 8., Jr., (Ray), Independence Boy (Rodney) and Vernon McKinney (James). The Eel won the opening heat in 2:07%, and Sir R.» according to the evidence tanced. At the time of the race the Judges in the stand gave Murphy’s horse as finishing seventh. Sir R. came out and won the second and third heats, thus terminating the race. In each instance The Eel was second. F. W. Entricken, owner of the gray horse, protested the payment of the purse to Sir R., and carried the case to the board of appeals. The ruling body sustained Mr. Entripken and ordered Thomas W. Murphy, driver of Sir R., to return the purse to the Hartford association, and they in turn were ordered to pay first money to Mr. Entricken. The Eel died three weeks later, during the Columbus meeting, and Mr. Entricken will be made SSOO richer by the decision, as first money was SI,OOO, while on the basis on which he was paid at the time of the race he received but SSOO. The case is the first of its kind on record.