: The horse that won the horse turns out to be a fake trotter. She is taken to the outback and fed with poisoned grain. The animal is dying in agony.

Emerald is a tall running horse with legs and body of impeccable shapes. He lives in the stable along with other running stallions who cannot stand each other. A few days ago, due to a lack of space, a young mare is put in the stable to them, and the hostility between the stallions is growing.

Emeralds are carefully prepared for the competition. The stables' main rider, an Englishman who is equally afraid and respected by both people and horses, checks to see if the Emerald is ready. The races begin. Under the leadership of the Englishman, the Emerald wins.

After a few minutes of sprawled Emerald lead to the stands. People closely surround the horse, examine its legs, sides, hair, shout that it is a fake trotter, a fake horse, cheating and fraud, and demand to return the money back.

The Emerald who does not understand anything - after all, he won - is taken back to the stable. Boring days are coming. Some people come, examine his legs, teeth, rub his coat and shout at each other. Then they take him out of the stable and for a long, long time lead along some streets, bring him to the train station, put him in a carriage, bring him to some village and lock him in the stable, separate from other horses. And again, some people examine him.The main person in this stable, to whom the Emerald is experiencing genuine horror. Once this man puts oats of strange taste in a feeding trough. The emerald feels a tingling in the abdomen, which increases with each passing minute. Finally, it becomes unbearable, fire wheels spinning in front of her eyes, her body becomes flabby, her legs give way, and the stallion falls. Some kind of force carries him down into a deep, cold pit. A coarse human cry still catches his ear, but he no longer feels himself being pushed into the side with his heel.