UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1934, Page 11

UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE.

INCIDENT AT THAMES MEETING SWAB OF HORSE TAKEN. After contesting the Thames Plate, the chief event at the Thames Jockey Club's meeting on Saturday, a veterinary surgeon, under official supervision, took a swab of the saliva of Prolyxo, who ran unplaced in that event. The swab was taken with the approval of Mr. L. S. Otway, owner of Prolyxo, in the presence of Mr. C. Gomer, chief stipendiary steward of the New Zealand Racing Conference, and Mr. E. Cullen, racecourse inspector. . , The swab, also a bottle containing the remainder of the fluid that had been given to Prolyxo prior to the race, and the syringe used to convey the fluid down her throat, and in which there was still some left, were taken possession of and brought to Auckland by Mr. Cullen in order to be analysed. The incident Is an unusual one as far as racing in New Zealand is concerned, and the attendant who administered the fluid to Prolyxo stated that it was given in order to check the filly's tendency to bleed during the race. Prolyxo was started later in the day in the Farewell Handicap, in which she failed to finish in a flace. She also contested the Hauraki 'lains Handicap on the first day of the meeting, being one of the last to finish.