Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1913 — ENGLISH TURF TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

ENGLISH TURF TRAGEDY.

Owner’s Sudden Death Just as His Horse Won a Great Race. The death of St. Simt>n, perhaps the greatest racehorse of his generation, recalls an almost forgotten tragedy of the turf. Half an hour before the race for the Two Thousand Guineas of 1883 Prince Batthyany, who bred St. Simon and who was one of the most popular racing men of any time, was talking with Lord Cadogan ir the luncheon room of the Jockey Club stand at Newmarket when he suddenly reeled and fell. He was carried to Weatherby’s office and doctors were summoned; but the Prince was beyond a|l human aid, and just before the bell rang for the race for which his colt Gaillard, brother of St Simon, was first favorite he breathed his last A few minutes later "the clear blue sky rang with cheers and shouts as the horses came thundering along, which rose int<- a roar as Gaillard won by a head”; while behind the drawn blinds of Weatherby’s office Galliard’s owner, who had been looking forward so eagerly to this moment, was lying dead. It was owing to the aeath of his owner that Galopin’s great son could not run In the Derby of 1884, which he would almost certainly have won.