RACECOURSE TRICKERY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1932, Page 4

RACECOURSE TRICKERY

INVESTIGATION LIKELY

■. -•; *- v;.'..-'■ ' -LONDO^ '11th: May/,v . i-?ow : spectators may. ■cWpple'^.f'avourite's changes by. spraying; him-with fluid from - the. paddock; may^:shortly v ;b;e'revealcd by a special inquiry by the' Joekey^'Club. ":: ■■.-1-'v'---. '■ .

For \teii ..years vague .allegations of "nobbling" -have occasionally, been made on' various racecourses, and now the Jockey Club's, private detectives are paying special attention to .cases where heavily-backed horses ran so badly that foul play was openly hinted at. . •■•■'■

A well-known jockey, recently reported his suspicion that a spectator in the paddock had sprayed: his1 uiount, either on tho shoulders or quarters oi tho flanks, from a small syringe, rcsem,blmg a fountain pen, with a f\uvd producing immediate high : temperature creating neivous disordci, and lobbing tho horse of any chance of winning.

Detectues investigating the possibility discovered an incident at Kempton Park on 7th May, which the Jd"ckcy Club has decided thoroughly to lines tigate. *;V r.