ENGLISH HORSE DOPE GANG

Evening Star, Issue 20655, 1 December 1930, Page 13

ENGLISH HORSE DOPE GANG

HURRIED FLIGHT FROM FRANCE Sensational allegations bearing on re cent 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 case under consideration the defence of tho trainer was that ho 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 lipen warned off and is now believed to be in England. „ This stable lad says ho was “ blackmailed ” into administering a-drug to the horse concerned on tho day of tho race. The report states that the men procured the stable lad to administer tho drug, told him that the presence of the drug could not bo detected, and that they had successfully operated in England for three years' without being discovered.