BLINDED BY DOPE
A shocking case of doping was revealed at the Orange trotting meeting on January 20, says the Sydney “Herald." When betting operations began on the Orange Handicap E. Woods’s bay gelding Ukulele Boy. by Machine Brick—Pickaway, who had been brought from Parkes, was made a warm favourite. As J. Watts, the driver, was about to harness the horse in the gig he discovered that the animal was blind and in a painful condition. Mr. Roberts, the veterinary surgeon, found that the horse had been doped. Ukulele Boy was then withdrawn from the race, and bets were declared off.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 883, 29 January 1930, Page 13
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101BLINDED BY DOPE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 883, 29 January 1930, Page 13
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