Dopers

All horsemen know that racehorses are sometimes drugged with laudanum before a dishonest race to make them sleepy and slow, with heroin or cocaine to speed them up. They call the last race at some tracks the "drugstore race" because some of the horses are certain to have been drugged. Once dosed, a horse needs repeated doses to be any good at all. But few realized the extent of U. S. horse doping until last month when U. S. narcotic agents arrested a gang of horsemen at Arlington Park, near Chicago, for illegal possession and transportation of narcotics, claimed proof that more than 200 horses had been drugged on U. S. tracks this year. Three of those arrested, stable boys who had sold heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago under the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act. They included four owners--Hal Price Headley, A. A. Baroni, Benjamin Creech and Jack Howard--also Creech's son-in-law, Ivan Parke, famed jockey of ten years ago, a Lexington veterinarian and four exercise boys.

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