The time Theodore Lupino tried to crash the finish of Mayflower Stakes

Whitaker Marshal III
I remember watching the Mayflower Stake in July of 1966 and in the premier race for two year Olds a attention seeking psychotic made his way trackside and grabbed a seat near the finish line. As the horses rounded the turn the mentally deranged middle-age man got up and tried to prevent the finish of this important race. It was the fourth of July 1966 and many deranged mentally unstable men were walking the streets. A week later a Richard Speck was t make news killing eight nurses in Chicago. For Theodore Lupine though his mad dash for the psychotic finish line would leave no injures. The jockeys were able to avoid this nut at the last moment and for the thousands if fans witnessing this debacle of a race. Horse racing enthusiasts waned in America after this race as a paradigm shift in society was taking place in the era of musical acts like the Beatles and Monkeys explodding on the scene disturbing the old go goes like Theodore Lupine in society to lose their marbles. The world as they knew it was changing and stupid shit like horse racing was on its way out in this generational shift.
   Track photographer Henry Carfagna captured this craziness on July Fourth at the Suffolk Downs in East Boston before 24 000 fans and tgere would never be again such a large audience for horse racing agaun. In 1988 the last Mayflower Stakes was run in this track as more and more of the lame old horse racing generation died off and more long-haired generational liberal minded people were born and didn't dig watching horses race around in a circle
The Trackside Photographer Snapped The Winner Picture Early To Capture This NUMNUTS Trying To Commit Suicide By Horse And The Resulting Photograph Went Viral World wide. What made Ted Lupine try to interrupt the race between Happy Voter and Taunton is not known as this idiot was rushed to Bellvue and the jerk disappears from history but for the stupid sport of horse racing the decline was set in and so for many races and stakes it would be history for these events