Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1909 — RACER DROPS DEAD ON TRACK [ARTICLE]

RACER DROPS DEAD ON TRACK

Frank Gill Falls Lifeless After Contest on Gravesend Course. Gravesend, New York, Tune 11. — Frank Gill, a chestnut horse, fell dead, probably from bursting a blood vessel, after finishing second in the thiro race here. When Scoville, his rider, pulled up on the lower turn he felt the horse giving way under him and jumped off just as the thoroughbred dropped dead. As a three year old Frank Gill de seated Peter Pan, one of James R. Keene’s racers.