Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-02
G. K. G. BILLINGS GIVING HIS TWO MINUTE TR0TTER LOU
DILLON, AN EXERCISE SPIN TO WAGON

! Press. John Oliver Keene of Lexlng-
ton. KY, trainer for the racing stable
of Nj. /. Lazarry, who has been sus-
pended for year dating from Aug. 20
for the alleged use of some unknown
drug, has won 10 races with his stable
and over 100000 during the last four
or FIVE months. Keeno and his friends
say that 1t Is the only reason for the
ruling against him.
Keene was trainer last year for Hen
ry de Bloch, the millionaire OF Warsaw,
and won $4,000 with single horse,
named Sirdar He has already ex-
ceeded this, though the season is not
yet over, with NJ. Lazarry's Irish Lad,
a horse which has won $50 800 and now
holds all the three year-old records for
Russia
The success of the stables handled by
Keene has been the sensation Of Rus
sian sporting circles for a year or
more, and he has been accused Of ruin
ing horse racing In this country. since
everybody bet on his entries. When the
present season opened Keene selected
Irish Lad, a three year-od, SIRED by
Galtec More. an English horse procured
at n great expense by the imperial
stud for the great racing events. and
Irish Lad won the Moscow and the
Warsaw derbys, besides other valuable
prizes.
Keene's success was attributed by
the leading sporting journal Of 81,
Petersburg to wise training and good
riding,
The rival stables, however were UNI
willing 10 acknowledge that Keene ha
won by superior training alone. and
had for months been trying to prove n
case of 'doping" against him and even
tually procured keene's suspension Tor
q year, .... ..
A detective one day watched the
La2arry horses for eight hours at War
saw. on the day referred to they won
four out OF five races In which they
were entered and the fifth race was
only lost by head
AT Moscow an order WAS Issued re-
curing all entries 10 atand In the pod
dock four hours before every race, The
Lazarry horses, Notwithstanding this.
still won, and the order was eventual
~ abandoned because all the owners
protested against It as being cruelty to
animals.
When the St Petersburg season
'RNilNh VIC N''llillNal AUllillli'fF OF the
racing club began collecting foam from
the Lazarry horses mouths at the
end OF every race They gathered It
on cotton and put It In bottles II
was afterwnrd examined by chemist
named Perl who claimed 10 find
traces In II OF some form OF morphine.
keene was then summoned before the
board OF stewards and he swore that
he had employed no chemicals. Two
stable boys claimed they had seen
keene give some medicine TO one or
two horses, and M. de Bloch wrote a
letter stating that he had discharged
Keene for doping" Keene did not
deny that he had doctored the horses
when they were sick and demanded
that he be confronted with NJ. de
Bloch, but the board OF stewards de-
MED this request
II s claimed for Keene that. lad
hitting the honesty Of the tests a trace
OF morphine might be due TO the use OF
a certain leg wash composed of small
amount OF laudanum. spirit extract of
arnlca, saltpeter and sugar OF lead dis
solved In n large body OF alcohol" II
Is asserted that quantities OF this mix
turc are frequently employed with a
quart OF water and that no objection
has been made TO this leg wash by the
racing authorities.
Keene viii appeal to the Grand Duke