AS OTHERS SEE US.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1245, 26 February 1914, Page 11

AS OTHERS SEE US.

THOUGH WE HARDLY THINK THINGS ARE SO BAD. Says “Milroy” in the Sydney “Mail”: A Sydney vet. on his return from a holiday jaunt in New Zealand declares that “dope” is more extensively used there than even in Queensland, where, he asserts, no trainer’s outfit is complete without a quart bottle or two of drugs. He also declares that the re-cently-appointed stipendiaries in New Zealand have a hot time before them if they try to clean the turf over there. The crooks are very influential; albeit the clean sport class will have a good run for their money so long as Mr. John McMahon is in office. Mr. McMahon is quite in love with Maoriland and its racecourses, and as we all know “Mac” does not love the turf crook, the authorities need only give him a full, free hand, and he will make matters warm for that class of owner who must beat the tote or

perish. Unfortunately, Australia is an excellent dumping-ground for this class, who fetches his “dope,” loaded shoes, and other everyday tricks across with him. They all reckon somnolent Australians “dead easy game”; but a few have found to their cost that the poor despised mainlander is awake on occasion. All concerned in the Loch Mabin case will have quite a lengthy period of rest in which to ponder over the past, though I have been told on good authority that D. J. Price, who went out with the rest, was a victim of circumstances.