DOPED NATIONAL- WINNER
One of the leading French racehorse trainers, M. Charles Marchal, has been fined £100 by the committee of the French Steeplechase Society for toe alleged doping of a horse, M. Jules Fri- ' burg's Millionaire 11, winner of the Grand Steeplechase (the French Gran,d National).. ~ A specimen of the horse's saliva was taken after he had won a race at Auteuil on April 11, and the analyst found traces~of a stimulant administered the same day. M. Marchal, who is a veterinary surgeon, admitted that the horse had been following a treatment that included the administration of a heart tonic, and-the treatment was not interrupted on the day of the race. He told the stewards that, having faith m the pamphlets dealing with the tonic, lie did not consider it a stimulant of the nervous system and therefore forbidden, but a stimulant of the vascular system. ■.; \ , , ~. The stewards accepted this as an extenuating circumstance, but fined him £100 and disqualified the'horse as winner of the race.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1935, Page 6
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167DOPED NATIONAL- WINNER Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1935, Page 6
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