Only one positive

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32661, 17 July 1971, Page 8

Only one positive

(from Our Own Reportet) WELLINGTON. Between April 20, 1970, and the some date of this year, only one report was received from the analyst which gave rise to charges under the Rules of Racing relating to drugs. Mr R. A. Whyte, president of the Racing Conference, told delegates this at the annual meeting of the conference in Wellington yesterday. He said that during the period under review about 1000 samples were taken from horses and this could be regarded as a relatively satisfactory result. The analyst has recently declared another "positive,” but the end result was still relatively pleasing. "Even one positive was too many for a country which sought at all times to uphold the principle which was fundamental to fair and dean racing—namely that no horse should start with any advantage over the others,” said Mr Whyte. “It behoves all of us, who are connected with the administration of racing, at all times and with every means available to us, to seek to ensure that this principle is upheld;”