DOPERS ACTIVE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 16, 11 September 1931, Page 4

DOPERS ACTIVE

SENSATION AT CESSNOCK CUP * MEETING. CESSNOCK, S.ept. 2. A sensation was provided at Cessnock Jockey Club's meeting, when, following tlie Cup race, it was revealed that two of the runners had . been doped. blr. R. Moore, owner of Congress, laid a charge before the stipendiary steward (Mr. P. J. Ryan) that a man had doped his mare. Mr. Ryan pointed out that a- charge of that kind would have to be referred to the poKce, bnt Moore declined to go on with the naatter, and later withdrew | the cliarge. The steward, however, called on | the club's veterinary surgeon (Mr. | W. Neilson) to examine the mare, and the report was 'that there was undoubted evidence of atrophine poisoning. The victim's eyes were dilated, the heart-beats quickened and she was in a distressed condition. Goldbeater, another competitor, was in even worse plight. He had become unmanageable at the barrier, and thrown his rider ( J. Corbett) . The veterinary surgeon found him j in a pitiable state. After a later examination, Mr. Neilson told a "Sunday Sun" man that the gelding was in a very bad way. The stipendiary steward investigated the fielders' books and stated that there was no evidence that the bookmakers had taken any undue liberty with either of the runners concerned.