WAS IT DOPING ?

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 246, 17 October 1922, Page 6

WAS IT DOPING ?

VK TOR lAN SKNSATIUS. (From Our liwn Correspondent.> >VDNKV. October li Tire arro-t uf a uniii; man at t'' Riirn:nibvi>t rarr-s, in the Hallarat district, Victoria, la-t Kridny. on a charge of liavinp attcnipti'cl in "dope" the racfliors* , SluTwooil Hi'an i- the bigger racing spn-ation for -"tm , \rar~. Tin' hiir.-f was in tho ?pri"" Handicap, hm<l wn< favonritv fur tbf rar-o. Hi 1 vva« stailding in lii? -'t 11 " roady to !v s;u!dli>il up. wlimi Hifhard Hollow. :, Lrru.Mll lltl.'llrlin- tliP i>OT*C !" thn iicxi -t;il!. -aw n man approach >I> pr wo.nl Rran iiti.l (..it him mi the l>ai -i; - Hollow Urramr i>ii..piriuii r .!•:>! clmllfiig*' l tlip man. who run a\v;i\. ll.' clia-d him ami throw him to tho The man was rlpiaitiPil until later, when til' poli.p took him in rl,;,r_-p. \ hyporlorniii , syiinui' wa- pinked "P :>n tlif ):rass clor-o to t lip ?]ir-i wiierc tlw took placo. U"lu<n In- examined Kherwood Bran. HoUo«v fo.ind a natch on ihp off sliouldpr noar the necktlw dctpi-tivps infrrmo<! the stewards that thp horsp l.ore porno r\ idence ot :omp liquid. The h..r-p «- scratched m<l all Iwts doclarod ofT. Mr. A. K. lallow. vptorinary siirjiSOn, 'xamitipd th»- horsp, and hi- pxatnina - •ion ,Ipp;ipiis thp that the iorsp was drugged. It U helipvcd the* racing swindle may be uucarthei