RACEHORSES DOPED
BETTING GANG’S WORN LONDON July 24. A betting gang is working the Midlands and north of England, doping well-backed horses to ensure the horses losing. „ _ According 'to the Daily ExpiesS, a well-known northern trainer, has reported to the stewards ol the Jockey Club that one of his best sprinters worth about £SOOO, which he fancied strongly for an important handicap, was doped. , , , - The trainer aovised the owner who is accustomed to betting in thousands, to have iiis maximum bet on the horse. The horse finished nearly last and pulled up very distressed The trainer remembered that beioie the horse's mouth was washed out before the race froth was bubbling on its Swabs taken showed that the horse had ne'e n heavily drugged, and the trainer believes that the horse was 'got at” while the iad m charge ot him was having a meat Two similar incidents have been reported although swabs were not tai-en It is said that the dope gang is working in the same area where the acid -pTav i obblers were at live last year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22406, 13 August 1947, Page 8
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180RACEHORSES DOPED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22406, 13 August 1947, Page 8
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