Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1911 — How Horses Are Doped. [ARTICLE]

How Horses Are Doped.

We hear a good deal about doped horses on a race track. No one is likely to be caught in the act of doping a race horse, because the dose given is so small It can be administered with little danger of detection long before the race It a horse is to race at 3 o’clock a twograin powder is given on rhe longue in a darkened stall at 1 o’clock The drug takes effect in about thirty jginutes and breaks out into ■» sweat. It is rubbeddown, cooled out and done up as if ft had come in from morning work. Every effort is made to keep tbe horse quiet until post time, but It very often breaks out again ;u<l is again cooled out. The doped horse *.ever takes any warming-up work and this fact affords the best means for finding him out. The animal ie moved slowly to the starting point, great care being taken to- prevent It from becoming excited until the flag is dropped. Then a kick and dig to the work and. in an ihstant lhe fiih force of the dope is felt.