ENGLISH HORSE DOPE GANG

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 29

ENGLISH HORSE DOPE GANG

Hurried Flight From France

Sensational allegations bearing on recent doping incidents on the British Turf are made officially in the course of the stewards’ report into a number of similar incidents in France.

The report, which deals mainly with a recent doping incident at St. Cloud, makes the definite charge that there is in existence a gang of racecourse pests who dope horses in France, England, and Ireland unknown to owners or trainers. '

In the ease under consideration, the defence of the trainer was that he had no knowledge of the fact that dope

was being administered, and he was able to produce a written confession from a stable lad who has since been warned off, and is now believed to be in England.

This stable lad says he was “blackmailed” into administering a drug to the horse concerned on the day of the race.

The report states that the men procured the stable lad to administer the drug, told him that the presence of the drug could not be detected, and that they had successfully operated in England for three years without being discovered.