The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02
ONE JOCKEYS SUCCESS
Story of j. W. Beene's Exper-
fence In Russia.

: Correspondence of Associated Press
1 ST Petersburg. Saturday. Aug. q
John Oliver Keene. Of Lexington, Ky,
trainer for the racing stable of NJ. L
Lazarry. who has been suspended for
a year dating from August 20. for the
alleged use Of some unknown drug, has
won - races with his stable and over
I 100000 during the last four or five
months Keene and his friends say
that is the only reason for thee ruling
against him
Keene was trainer last year for Henry
de Bloch. the millionaire of Warsaw.
and Won So, 900 with a single horse.
named Sirdar. He has already exceeded
b this. though the season is not yet over.
with NJ Lazarry's I-ish Lad. a horse
which has won $56. 500 and now holds all
I 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 running
horse racing in this country, since ev-
erybody bet on his entries. When the
present season opened keene selected
Irish Lad. a three-year-old sired by
Galteemore, an English horse procured
at a 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.
Keens's success was attributed by the
leading sporting journal of St Peters
burg to wise training and good riding
The rival stables. however. were IN
willing 10 acknowledge that Keene had
won by superior training alone and had
for months been trying TO prove case
of doping against him and eventually
procured Keene's suspension for a year.
A detective one day watched the
LaZarrv horses for eight hours at War
saw. On the day referred to they Won
four out of five races in which they
nd he
only lost by head
At Moscow an order was issued re-
I curing all entries to stand III. the pad
: dock four hours before every race. The
Iazarrv horses. Notwithstanding this,
still won. and the order was eventually
( abandoned. because all the owners pro-
. tested against II as being cruelty TO ami
mails
When the St Petersburg season open
ed the technical committee OF the racing
( club began collecting foam from the
LaZarrv horses mouths at the end OF
every race. They gathered il on cotton
and put IL in bottles 1t was afJerward
examined by a chemist named Perl WnO
/ claimed TO find traces in il OF some
I form of morphine keene was then sum-
/ moned before the board of stewards and
he swore that he had employed 10
( chemicals Two stable bows ella ir1l,s1
4 they had seen Keene give some medicine
I TO enc or two horses. and 4.de Bl9sn
+ wrote a letter stating that he had dis
7 charged Keene for doping keene did
not deny that he had doctored the horses
/ when they were sick. and demanded
{ that he be confronted with M-de Bloch.
! but the board of stewards denied this
Z request
It is claimed for Keene that admit
ting the honesty of the tests. a trace OF
/ morphine might be due 10 the use of a
/ certain leg wash composed of small
I amount of laudanum. spirit extract Of
I arnica, saltperer and sugar OF lead CiS-
solved in large body Of alcohol
It Is asserted that quantities of this
mixture are frequently employed with
quart of water and that no objection
I has been made to this leg wash BY the
racing authorities
Keene will appeal to the Grand Duke
I Dimitri Constantinovich who is protector
of Russian racing
other Americans engaged in racing
here also have been IN trouble ]. c
I Mitchell NJ Lazarus rider, has bsea
fined $500 for an alleged foul, which all
the Americans deny, and has been for
hidden TO ride for anybody except NJ
I I.aZarrv-
1 Trainer Frank stars was ruled of for
having a bottle OF speed elixir in
vaIise but the penalty was afterward
! reduced TO nine months suspension He
claimed he employed il only after race,
I to help his entries cool OF properly
/ William GayWOod. A rider. has bean
dismissed BY his employer with the Of
( fer of 8. 600 instead of $3.50 due him on
/ his contract. The employer said he did
not like Gaywood's riding Another
/ American named Slattery had previous
/ " been dismissed by the owner of the
/ same stable. his contract being cancelled
and his earnings withheld