How did Colonel Ross kill Straker in the adventures of silver blaze?

Answer 1

colonel ross didnt kill straker. straker went to take the horse out of the stabel to cut it with his scalpel so he would lose the race on which colonel ross was betiing against silve blaze in. straker went to cut his leg and the horse reacted violently and crushed strakers skull. that explains why the gaurd dog didnt bark, it was a familiar person taking the horse away