Dodgery in Dog Racing

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 24, 7 August 1886, Page 4

Dodgery in Dog Racing

Thei%"arV «oine men who will mever bet ©n a hQrW»ra'ce, ; but; will place their money fneelyan adog. * Dogs,' they say r •neversftteat.-.wjiereasa. jockey can do what he,;lik]es .with a horse.' That sounds. reasonable, but it i* not true all the same, for itiere can be as ranch cheating wM? dogs' as with horses." •• Y>»u hive-'a 'smalf frog of 1 lead,' which fits into ihe hollow «f the dog's front paWi The tnit strip«-of - lead are doubled over betweeii fMei&ok'sXclawi^ and are con« ceaied by the hair. The result is that the wh^gpft-slead-Jg,. invisible, and one, who did .np^ know about lt mijfht te^tHe id'og's, paw in hjs, hand and look cawilijiyV^b^ui' detecting the little Voight. iil «iLtft^tellß >n the, docs rm«u n« ning; a%U^6a'may be 'tolerably certain that witeiie^B* a -dog ! which ; has done, mnrvelomitbiflg??* unaccountably beate.a . there has been Bpnw;;|rickerj,of tj>e;kindj pr»etißed..__ft ij very difficult to detect, and thoM' who, , dpT?t know- how, to "p\ife the monTy J ofih^PaH Mall Gazette ;