THE “DOPE” QUESTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 12

THE “DOPE” QUESTION

DR. LOUISSON SUPPORTED “THROWING A BRICK” The dope question has cropped up, and although Dr. Louisson, who brought up the subject at the meeting of the Metropolitan Trotting Club, has been strongly contradicted, he is not the class of man whose opinions can be brushed aside (says an Otago writer). There is no doubt that the temptation to use aid to speed must always exist. It has been used, but it is questionable if the desired result has always been achieved. The Ameri-

cans took it to Ensrland. and for . time it was not a breach of raS* law to take full advantage of its • * Long experience of training. ! has completely proved that the v • ! ‘dope" is plenty of sood feed and 04 *" j judicious rotation of work on t>* ! track. Dr. Louisson would naturar be more qualified to note the effect ', drugs than an ordinary layman. I hence his opinions command pTr* I than passing noUce than repUesTf I people whose knowledge of drugs j chemicals does not pass into Practirv 1 experience. Trainers’ Views ‘*l think Dr. Louisson's suggestio, that some routine procedure of te*- 3 ing the saliva of certain horses dutisa meeting quit? a good one, for Sj simple reason that it would show tt public its interests were heing saf, -U.irded," said a successful Souther, trainer, when asked his opinion of -v. a statements about the doping of hons* made by Dr. M. G. Louisson at tfc. annual meeting of the Xew Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club, *bht what I don’t like about the whob ! business is that Dr. Louisson ‘threw the brick’ at a trotting meeting.'