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Show "DOPED" HORSES. Become Fiends After Drugs and Will Not Race Without Stimulants. (New Y'ork Wrorld. "Dope" cannot make a horse that never possessed speed run fast. What it can do and what it does is to revive in an old horse that once possessed i great speed, but which has become sour , and ill-tempered from training, his old ambition to try his best. For the time ' being he is so under its influence that he forgets himself completely and has but one motive in life to run just as far and as fast as he can. After several doses horses become fiends for it. They will not race without with-out it. - Their appetites become impaired, im-paired, and after a time they become wrecks, the same as men and women who are addicted to the opium habit, ' One of the signs, of the use of dope in a horse is profuse perspiration. Just ( as soon as it begins to act he breaks out Into a sweat. A little walking ex- . ercise causes h'm to "lather" as if he had raced two miles at top speed. His eyes begin to look unnaturally bril- ( liant, and he becomes restless and ill at ease. He is anxious to run, and can scarcely be restrained from doing so while going to the post. Blueaway, who dropped dead . last year after a race, was credited - with being a "dope" horse. He got so much of it, some trainers claimed, that he was a "fiend" and would not race without with-out it. He evidently died from too much stimulant. "Dope," as it is called, first came into use among horsemen at Gutten-burg. Gutten-burg. The track on the Palisades was responsible for many evils of the turf, but this was the worst that ever sprang into existence among the many racing outlaws that made that place their rendezvous. ren-dezvous. Dr. Ring was responsible for its introduction. He was a veterinary surgeon who attended the sick horses at thf track nnH ho lirnuo-ht fnrth thp "elixir of speed." It was first used on a big black horse, a cripple. This horse had once been very fast, but physical ailments took all his speed and courage away from him, and he had been relegated to the "also ran" class. His owner, a poor fellow, with more hope than dollars, worked as a stable hand for other stables to earn oats and hay for his one chance to secure a fortune. He patched his legs up so that he could stand without shaking as though he had the delirium tremens, started him several times and saw him finish far back in the ruck. Then Dr. Ring appeared with his speed producer. He said that he had something that would make the old "shate" forgot his pain.' would fire him with all his old ambition to race, and that it would not cost his owner a cent. Would the owner allow him to inject the drug in the horse? Would he? Well! Such a thing as a conscience con-science was never heard of by a "Gut-tenburg "Gut-tenburg horseman. So Dr. Ring brought forth his little lit-tle "needle" and gave the horse the injection that was to fill his almost broken heart with the courage of a Salvator. Jn a short time the stimulant stimu-lant began to act. So did the horse. He jumped and snorted around like a young 2-year-old. He forgot his ills and troubles and went to the post with his old life, his fast one, renewed. re-newed. His speed came back and he beat his field in a gallop. Dr. Ring cashed in the thousands. Dr. Ring never charged for the use of his services when he used the "dope." All he desired was the consent of the owner to use it and a promise of secrecy. He picked out a horse that once possessed ypeed. but had lost his best form, placed the needle to him and then went into the ring and backed him. He made the bookmakers book-makers pay his fee. In recent years dope has been improved im-proved upon. It has changed its formula and is made up of other drugs than those used by D. Ring. When the use of it was no longer allowed by the turf authorities the "needle" was discarded and the "ball" substituted. The use of the syringe left a telltale mark behind. Wherever Wher-ever the needle entered the flesh puffed up and remained in that condition until un-til the effects of the drug had worn off. It was this sign that the paddock pad-dock judges searched for when looking look-ing for horses that were supposed to be "doped." The drug is now given as a "ball." It is not so dangerous to those who use it, and It does not leave a trace of its existence behind. |