THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961.
CLIVE GRAHAM....back in England after a 31,000-mile tour continues with his world-wide survey on Racing.
The horse dopers
eye opener
Testing horses for dope after every race has
now become almost standard procedure throughout the racing world overseas, with very few exceptions. And it was an eye-opener to follow close at hand the methodical routine efficiency with which these checks are conducted; the steps taken to ensure that the sam- ple bottles could not be switched or tampered with; and the clinic-type cleanliness of the laboratories on each
race-course.
tald
me
that
Dome
All the vels and analysts' "It Is 1 inystery why no
modern trainer has protested
against stimulants cannot be detected your system. I know saliva tests $11 sorapien of swent and are taken, but you also take saliva.
Eзmple», sweat
which Goud easily have been contaminated by outside sources.
I
therefore. Ic Britain, could "hop up" a horse any day of the week, without fear of being found out—If I used
the substances some of analysts told me about.
the
I have no doubt whatsoever tha! thesc drugs are being employed
by with impunity trainers in England, where tests are not so rigid,
Advanced
The title of "the most doped horse in the world," must un- doubtedly go to the starter's hack in Singapore. There the anti-doping methods
are
more advanced than in By other country I visited, and the starter's hock is used as equine Ho guinea
pik.
scems Very happy about It all, too.
"Most of Dur OWNETK are Chinese, explained Mr Vivian Bath, chairman of the Straits Racing Association and they have on cutlook on the sport which differs from that held by most Europeans.
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"Might not the owner, trainer, or stable lad patting the horse afterwards have provided false evidence?"
He shook up a blue dye and chloroform in a test tube, took tiny libre from my cigarette and inserted it. The mixture immediately became discoloured,
"Sec what I mean?" he asked "This shows a deânite reaction to doping! And there could easily be a
grain of Iobacco on a horse's Bank.
Swabs
Dr Rintoul helped to devise the system Now practised throughout Malayo of testing hoses for dope before they run,
I saw this at Penang (a lovely little racecourse with pru- fusion of flowered trees).
The Indian offelal vei, P. K. Rao, took saliva swabs of every horse before each race. These nothing were analysed in the padduck horse laboratory, The whole procedure
tonk a quarter of an hour,
"They
Ід having Wrong stimulated. In thefr eyes, this merely represents a smart business move.
"It's vital for the continuation of racing in Malaya that there should be no sunda? Involved, for otherwise the Government would step in and prohibit }" went on Mr Bath,
With this object in mind, a sub-commitice was appointed 10 years ogo,
Walter Dr Fintoul, a Bachelor of Science, i who received his doctorate in i physics at Edinburgh University and is considered to be one of the ablest members of his pro- fession.
the whole reviewed subjeci candidly with me in his on Singapore race-
laboratory course.
Challenge
We were surrounded by all the paraphernalla of the chemist's layout bunsen - burners, test-tubes, dyes and powders in scores of soppered bottles,
The most expensive item of equipment was the £1,000 spectro-photometer, using ultra- violet rays.
Job
for
"This place and this represent a real challenge, we are up against some of the oleverest dope tricksters in the
world," he remarked.
He was the most impressively professional man that I met throughout my tour.
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There was no need for him to thumb through reference books hesitate in answering my questions. He mentioned, in a casual aside, that his services had often been summoned as a toxicologist by the Singapore police force
"Some of the doping cases conducted by the British Jockey Club seem to many of 1. altogoller farcical," he Bald.
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"These serve as a deterrent," explained Dr Rintoul, "but they will reveal only straightforward stimulants, such as morphine, strychnine, caffeine, etc."
(Which is the most effective? Morphine has the disadvantage, said the expert, because it tends
test will This preliminary not show the presence of the modern drugs used on horses notably the cortizone group. It is suspected that certain of the French trainers have been using DOCA, which comes in this category.
DCCA was tried out on the
to make a horse gallep in circles. Singapore starter's hock, some but half a grain of strychainemenths after he had recovered administered on the morning of from a slight strychnine hang- the race acts like a bomb."}
In the words of Malaya's
Four D. Jones THE MAJOR HAS GONE
BY MADDOCKS
STARK RAVING BONKERS
GAD MISSED WITH ME FIRST BLAST, BUT ME SECOND WILL
SHATTER THE SHOWER
FERDINAND
NANCY
THE BARN,” QUICK!
HISTORICAL
MUSEUM
BRICK BRADFORD
WHY DON'T YOU TAKE SHADY AND JOB AND SHOW "THRAS "TE THEUR
QUANTORS T
ZANIA BUSHMILLKIL
YBS! I WILL) I'M BURS THEY WOULD LIKE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND SOME
FOOOL...
cver.
ILL REPORT. TO GARTH AS JOON AS WB ARU WITHIN RANSA, BROCK!
WHY DON'T YOU ALL RESr
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best-known doping expert, "It Rave him fresh life and energy." A Randwick (Sydney), 41 the little up-country meeting of Gerford, in New South Wales, and at one of America's out-of- the-way tracks, Turf Paradise (near Phoenix, Arizona), I was able to watch horses having samples taken after each race.
"Do you know,” I said to Aton Swan, the vet at Gosford, "your lay-cut and procedure are"more- modern than you would find at Ascot, Epsom, or Newmarket.
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"And he for allowing member of the Press to be present at these checks, that would be quite unthinkable.'
Satan appeared genuinely surprised. "Well," hic carc back with typical Australian candour, "I reckon those oki fuddy-duddies back home have yet to learn to march with the limes."
Rule
The
Indions, especially Bombay, where 25 trainers have been warned off over the past 15 years, have also had 10 medernise
Anti-dope technique.
their
GOLF IS MY GAME
By BOBBY
JONES, Jr.
Hoylake-the British Open
Hoylake, the scene. of the British Open. has always been long, testing course, but singularly lacking in subtleties. I think it could be said to be a long hitter's paradise, because, although the distances are considerable, the ground, on the whole, is quite flat. In some strange way, though, my experience with the course seemed
to be precisely opposite to that of my fellow competitors. I seem- ed to have my trouble where everyone else was holding his own or building up a cushion, and contrarily, I managed to make my hay on the holes that caused others the most trouble.
The second day I added a 72 to the 70 of the first round, so that at the halfway point I was leading the field. ́
of
"Do you
The slope of this wall was I replied, not seeing very much quite abrupt 50 that there point to the question could be no thought of playing suppose." Cyril continued. "you
blast ordinary
or half have over played so badly for
The ball so long a parlod, and yet you. blast, or even chip. could only be struck by a sharp- have won both our champlon-
IN
But in the third round, Archie in Campston, a ne British profes-
slona! player, put in a Freat descending blow, and my ships?""
right foot had to be placed al- 68 and icok the
blt I confess to being a round
The hole lay at astonished by this comment, lo 210.
Yet I was certain that Cyril had kome twenty to twenty-five
not meant it in an
unkindly yards acrose this flat, shining
AB way.
I considered the green.
question, I was aware that to agree would imply a disparage- ment of the opposition I had encountered. Yet I knew Cyril had not meant this either.
lead from me by a stroke-216 behind me.
most at the top of the bank
The West Indian Tart Club has now worked out a rule which seems to be particular- ly clever.
The club takes the view that horses requiring the administra- tion of tonic, hormones, vitamins are not in a t condi- tion to race,
or
It follows, therefore, that they .must not be administered to horses white being trained for races, but only during the off- season or during rest perloda.
I found a surprisingly contrary attitude, however, taken by some of the tcp vets in Americi. concerned the use on horses of the chemical mixture known as Butozolidin,
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The deciding 16th
In the final round, Compe- ton suffered an expectablo reaction from
Only hope
year the massive, concave sand-
kle inspired I had not used for any im- play in the morning, and soon portant shot during the whole put himself out of it, but I also had my trouble with a wholly inexcusable 7 on the wedge which Horlon Smith had eighth hole. So it all came Elven me earlier in the year. As I looked this situation on the seventieth hole on the cham- hole to settle
drow
He was trying to emphasise what I knew so well to be a fact, that I had managed by the bardest possible kind of labour to win these two tournaments when my game nover once anywhere near peak efficiency.
WHE
able
Very lucky
down to one bunker shot on the sixteenth
pionship. I could see that this the Jesue.
was the only club with which this what could be played The sixteenth hole i Hov lake in 1930 was 532 yards in
successfully. If I could length.
the club just behind the ball was a dogleg to the so that contact would be made right around the corner of a just above centre of the face dike, at about 210 yards from of the club, the loft should be
For the most part, I had been The tee,
to produce satisfactory! The green was wide and whatever may just about right to play a run- Bgures, but there had not been and flat, have been on the right-handning shot across the green.
one competitive round, save
the side, there was a bunker at the
perhaps,
Amateur final I knew it was dangerous to against Wethered, when things left front corner of the green. use a club with which I had had gone smoothly. One day it so le familarity, but it was would be the long game, on- the Going all-out in
Qual
the only round for a 4, which I knew I
hope. The shot other the putting. On other days, needed desperately,
came off precisely as intended, my long
there had been stretches of very wood second
the ball popped over the for- was pulled just
excellent play in a départ- ward bank of the bunker and enough to Anish In this left-
ments by incredible lapses in crept slowly across the green concentration band wall of the bunker, that is,
until it just tickled the edge It was a little dificult even for of effectiveness. the wall on the side opposite the of the hole and stopped two me to believe that this kind of hole.
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An
play had carried me unbeaten That did it. I had to hole a
through a Walker Cup match, reasonable putt for n 4 at the the competition at Sunningdale, seventeenth. But I finished with and the two championships.. another 4 at eighteen and was I had been very lucky, of safe from pursuit. Leo Dlegel, that I was quite sure; but the coming along
hour later, recollection of took at this same
the game, at sixteenth Oxher was a very good thing to hole and so lost to me by 2 take onto the boat with me. strokes.
There, I had played entirely up to the form I had had In Augusta earlier in the year. Perhaps I should not have to
Never near peak
After the British Open. I had one free day before sailing for home, and this was given to a charity match
Oxhey in
at
which I played with three of the Old Masters. Ted Ray, James Brald and Harry Vardon. I happened to play very well and, even with at the last hole, scored a 68, which was at the time the lowest score over returned on the course.
work so hard in the tournMI- ments back home.
Sports Diary
TODAY
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Colony Opon Championshipa at CCC 130 pm.
Hockey Intemational Series Pakistan v Ireland (900kunpoo) 6.30 pm.
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On the boat-train on our way to Southampton to board a ship for America, Mory, may wife, Cyril Tolley and 1 were in a compartment together. AL one point, Cyril sald reflectively, "Bob, how long have you been over here?" "About six weeks," | Anal (KCC) & pm.
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