THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960, \
THE EVIL THAT NOW
MENACES
You can dope a racehorse and earn
RACING
thousands of pounds in bets with By Clive Graham & Peter O'Sullevan
less risk than you can stage a robbery, run a protection racket, or organise a smuggling cell.
So a gang or gangs have moved in on the stables and organised the biggest horse doping sensation of the century.
Stables at Arundel. New- the methods of dope analysis. market, Epsom... and Marl- Greece and Ceylon sent samples borough are under surveillance. of saliva from carl-horses and The Duke of Norfolk, chief hacks and had them certified as steward of the Jockey Club, positive, bimself is dragged into story.
the
Even one of Sir Winston Churchill's horses. Release, was under suspicion. The evil is undermining racing.
TRAINERS are fearful, for they are held responsible for their horses.
OWNERS are rate, for their horses do not perform
expected.
It is possible that positive reaction can be got on horses not doped at all. so how can one tell without a doubt when a horse has been got at?
Scotland
That is what is worrying the
Club and Jockey Yard
Beginning
saddied
Sacham's bad running in' • They could bet heavily this race proved quite out of each way on rivals, knowing.
accord with his performances in that the horse would be unlike- races"
his previous and subsequently to finish in the first three.
The Jockey riding would report:; "It ran like a dead horse. No life in it at all."
Next time out trained now for his new owner Mr F. G. Rowe (who had bought him on the morning of the Kempton race) by "Monty" Smyth and ridden again by Scobie Breasley --he won the important han dicap, the £3,000 Victoria Cup at Hurst Park on May 14...
Two more good races. and Sir Gordon felt satisfied that he had called in Scotland Yard.¦
Letters
It seems patent from recent developments that this patien has not died oul with the suicide of Rogers.
SPORTING SAM
BEAT THE BOOKIES
ONLY 276
10s-a-day
athletes
are rich
Rome,
At Stanley House slables, Newmarket, early on the morn-Britain's Olympic athletes.
ing of July 2 the crack sprinter Sing Sing was found to be in a dazed and semi-conscious con- dilion,
Later that afternoon he was scheduled to take on
Thi Whistle in a match for the July Oupa race which would have provoked heavy betting be- tween the pair.
Unfortunately for the organi-
sers, Sing Sing had been ad- ministered en overdose and was declared by mystified trainer Jack Watts as unit to run.
with 106, a day spanding money in their pockets, will practically be rich, compared to the Italiano.
The Italians have not set pocket money allowances for their team. They say it is not
necessary.
to pay
museums, free THE JOCKEY CLUB people Are at their wits end. For the their own stringent first time rules can rebound on their own horse-owning members.
Doubts
The task of detection is made harder by the doubts cast
Sports Diary
TO-DAY
Meeting
On
for the
During the course of their investigations the Yard officers called to see the retired stable ind "Bandy" Rogers at his start? How did al- all
On lodgings in the little Berkshire April 16 at Kempton Park Sir training centre of West 11sey Gordon Richards
his On April 19, three days after colt Sanctum the Rosebery Stakes, Rogers four-year-old
himself. which started the hot favourite shot
Among his at 11-8
Rosebery effects in the bedroom of his Had the dosage been weaker, Stakes.
thatched cottoze were found a the organisation behind this number of letters fromi stable doping racket could have bet Tin Whistle-not lads and chemists' employees. heavily on
It was obvious then, and even only on the racecourse at New- ali more obvious now, that this market, but with S.P. firms
the country-in the little old man, living in humble over circumstances with no more certainty of winning. than £100 wacked away in the Post Office Savings Bank, could only be a dab of paint in the over-all picture.
Sancturn's form-claims were obvious. He was ridden by the crack jockey Scobie Breasley and two weeks earlier he had Binished a close third in his preparatory mace at Windsor.
In the Kempion mile and a quarter race, however, he ran like a dazed or druriken horse. wobbling and at the end was
of the 14 and tired-13th
starters.
&
Annual meeling of A.S.F.
Board Room, S.C.M. Pos O.C
5.30 p.m.
Motor Sports Club, annual meet ing, P.A.T. Mors room, 530 p.m. Bowls
The general pattern, however, of this alleged "nobbling" of
So simple
In these cases and others re- ported the drugs appear to be of
by Reg. Wootton
London Express Service.
Sappers triumph in Army athletic team championships
By ARCHIE QUICK
Three Guards battalions Grenadiers, Scpts and Welsh-reached the finals for the first time in the long history of the Army Inter-Unit Athletic Team Championships at Aldershot. In the past there have been two Guards teams but never three.
the
to
be
Pare
BOOKS & SPORT
HIGH JINKS
ON MCC TOURS
By CHARLES STEPHEN Activities of the Baturday Night Club-which playa a major part in the social life of tour» ing England cricketers-15295 severely curtailed by Peter May when the MOC team went to Australia in 1958-59, The club was allowed to meet for only one bour and only beer was to be drunk.
But the feeling of England Test selector and Essex skipper Douglas Insole, vice-captain on the South African trip of 1958– 57, was that: "In general the club did a lot for team spirit and morale generally,"
Insole explains: The club is Ananced by fines extracted för various offences, real and, imaginary, against club rules. The mention of cricket is for- bidden and produces a heavy
В Naturally amount of drinking is done, certain and any time that a member of the congregation holds up an
dine,
glass empty
the barnen (nominated by the club chair- man) are fined"
ENTERTAINING
mo
the former Leicestershire batsman.
The club, says Insole in his That is a record which will | as it has stood for 28 years. And not go down in the official their dropping of only eight entertaining book "Cricket from No food. Todging or transport bodies, but what will be re- paints out of 126 was incredible the Middle" (Heinemann, 10) for, free trips to corded is the phenomenal in the face of, the fierce com- raised money for good causes, cups of tea-achievement of the 3rd Training petition in the Army. It was a including over £500 for the
[or Fund money seems superduous.
the widow Regiment, Royal Engineers, who swan song for this is a training Maurice Tompkin,
Championship battalion
disbanded. not retained Indeed, it the athletes do
had greater smoke, drink, take taxis, dine with an outstanding points total Strangely, they
The Easex captain speaks winning out or go shopping the 10s--of 118 out of a possible 126. in dificulty
the the difficulties under which the day budget is fine.
fact, 90 superior were these Southern Command title from members of the touring side Southern Command titleholders the 1st Battalion Parachute may find themselves. In South trom Clove that the chief in- Regiment. berest of the mealing centred on who would be second!
COFFEE....BEER
If an athlets wants to take one of the regular tourist half-day Rome sightseeing trips it wil cast two days' allowance.
A coffee at a sidewalk cafe on colourful Vis Veneto will come to 2s. 6d. with tip.
Sir Gordon could not confide Sanctum appears to be signif- the sleeping-tablet variety. They A beer would make a much big-
to the Kempton stewards his this widely- suspicions that
by small tipped cult-backed punters all over the country to of Colony Open Mixed Pairs matches the aggregate of thousands
IRC; pounds-might have been doped
with a stopping drug
HKCC
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Recreia, KCC
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TO-MORROW Water Polo
EYMCA Eastern at Victoria Park, 9 pm.
Army v SCAA at Victoria Park
9.30 p.m.
Four D. Jones
BY MADDOCKS
HEY!
WHERE ARE
YOU GOING?
OUT OF
THE MARRIAGE
MARKET,
MATE
FERDINAND
NANCY
THIS IS A SWELL
SPOT FOR
OUR PICNIC
For, under the rules of racing.
if they had insisted on a saliva trainer's test for doping, the
0
no
are easy to administer und, ger dent in" the day's 108. cant.
fortunately for the horse, up-
deleterious Dinner for one at one of Rome's Here was a horse which pear to leave. would obviously be
short-after-affecia. (There is nothing more famous restaurants will that to show that the dopers are take At least two days' priced favourite (obvious, is, to all form experts).
making their efforts more com- allowance three to be on the
rafe side. plex by giving pep-up pilis to "Nobblers" could profit in other selected horses.), two ways:-
• In concert or connivance with bookmakers they could lay licence would have been auto-heavily against the horse matically withdrown.
lose.
THAT LARK,Į ABOUT DAMES!
YES, BUT
藏在
YOU LET US
DIDN'T I TRY
ALL IN FOR
TO WARN YOU
WE WERE
IPIOTS
IT'S ALL ¡YOUR FAULT,
FIGHT FROM THE START
THEN
to
But the form of larceny that the dopers are using is simple. Much easier than robbing a bank-and fast as protiable.
--London Express Service).
BUT YOU
CAN'T LEAVE US TO
A FATE WORSE THAN
DEATH CALLED MARRIAGE/
QUITE SP,
NOW YOU ARE WASHED UPHUMANS
SO, MATE, I WILE MAKE MY EXIT
By Mik
1.1
in
of
Africa, he says, "not once but
Other placings were: 2.-2nd Battalion Grenadier tickets for a 'Dance in honour
several times We received
For Army records were | Guards (BAOR), 881⁄21⁄2 broken, and three of them 3.-1st Bn Scots fell to the Baggers, The (BAOR).
4.-1st Battalion other went to the Grosadjers when they retained the Guards (Eastern). hammer throw,
5.-2nd
The star
Not only did the Engineerz wash records in the Half Mile relay, 440 Yards relay and 480 Yards Handles relay, but m each case they kept the title ther won a year ago. They also won the Pole Vault, Three Miles team race, High Jump, An evening for two on one's Half-Mile relay, One Mile team
allowance could be had with race and the One Mile relay- the cheapest seats at the out-nine frsts, plus three second door opera, a soft drink at the interval and a free bus ride home.-Chins Mall Spedal.
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A remarkable feat, even if il make the afternoon one-sided.
Their champion was,
ot course, SSI Colin Andrews, the Yorkshireman who is attached to them as an instructor, and who is the Army Decathlon champion. He helped them in each of their three record- breaking events in fact, he
was
the real reason for the new times, together with the Army's two best sprinters, Second-Lieutenant John Judge and Corporal Derek Hand.
The Battalion RAOC from Chilwell, however, were pro dominant at middle distance running, thanks to the two Derby runners, Ple Alan Taylo and Pte Mike Kiely. They per formed the unusual feat of finishing Arst and second in the Three Miles at midday and" then duplicating that order in the One Mile four hours later. Taylor of course, 14 the Army cross-country champion and the Inter-Services One and Three Miles titleholder.
Swan song
The 18 Field Regiment KA from Larkhill are in a techni- cal class by themselves at Trig-of-War, but, although they kept the 100 Stones event, they were beaten out of 4 priced and expected "double" at 88 Stones by 5 Training Battalion, ROYAL Army Service Corps, holders,
the
Right at the end of the day. the Irrepressible Engineers equalled the One Mile relay re- oord, and that was no mean feat
(Western).
BA
points.
of the MCC team' which we had Guards heard nothing at all about.
Hundreds of tickets had gone Welsh out to people who turned up to
Greenjacke
i
4-6 Bn RAOC (Northern),
find none of us there. It was not difficult to imagine what those people thought about the MCC
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