The daily sentinel., 1910-07-23
ADMIT THEY HAVE NOTHING
AGAINST OWNER BEDWEL[
But Racing Commission Wants Banished Turf
man to Find the Guilty Party Before
They Will Reinstate lin

The Cincinnati Times-Star, thel
leading Associated Press penny pa
per Of that city, has come out in the
open supporting II. Guy Bedwell Of
this city, in his efforts to be rein
stated on the tracks of the American
| Trotting association. The following
article appeared in that paper under
the caption, Admit they have moth
ing against Bedwell but racing COM
mission wants banished turfman to
find the guilty party before they will
reinstate him"
The story follows:
Seldom, if ever. has a suspended
| horseman received the sympathy and
| friendship now extended to Guy Bed
well, SCI down Indefinitely on account
of the doping" of NadZu al Latonia
a few days ago. Racing men in gem
| eral seem to think that the unlucky
| owner has been the victim of an en-
| tirely TOO strenuous enforcement Of
race track law, while ball players
along the big circuits are clamoring
| for Bedwell to get another hearing.
J The Bedwell horses have for two
years been carrying the money of the
/ ball tossers-a crowd which loves the
ponies and such men as John Nc
| Graw assert that they consider the
suspended owner one Of the squarets
horsemen in the game.
What puzzles me, said Mr.. Bed
well Monday night, is the idea OF
ruling me off when nobody was stung
| by the doping of the horse Had
left a doped and crazy animal in the
race for which it was entered, I'd
/ have deserved to be chased for life,
but when protected the public and
the public's money by Withdrawing
the horse. it seems tough to be made
the goat.
"Nadzu was one of these docile,
quiet horses the kind you can lead
around with a string. On the day of
/ the alleged doping, one of my boys
| informed me that animal was acting
queerly and | found ,Nadzu strug-
Cling. fighting and acting in every
way like an insane creature. II was
plain enough that the horse had gone
wrong, and asked that the entry
be scratched. although the horse was
pretty near 3 to favorite. 1t
seemed to me that the only honorable
way to act was to take the beast OIL,
| and members of the commission as
sured me that had done right-that
! was clear of all blame in the mat
Ter. Then. to my utter surprise,
came my suspension, and now 1t
seems as If the burden of proof was
upon me-the burden of proving the
guilt in the case and of finding the
man who drugged the horse. Rather
hard lines, I'm thinking.
| The Bedwell horses have long been
noted for consistently running up to
form and the records show that no
charge of dishonesty was ever made
| against Mr. Bedwell. While he is
now tracing up some former employees
OF. his stable, with a view to locating
one of them as the possible poisoner
of the horse, his chances of catching
the right man are admittedly slim,
and. in the meanwhile. he is deprived
of his livelihood
This man" said John McGraw
| Monday night, lis absolutely on the
| level. and | am convinced, from some
auiet investigation of my own, that
he has been handed lemon. NO
malice or wrongdoing on the part OF
the commission, you understand, but
I simply case of MISUNDERSTANDING
and too literal application of the
rules"
Western horsemen say that the ac-
tions of NadZu were in every detail
! identical with those of horses who
have picked up mouthful of loco
weed in their hay, while loco weed
often gets mixed into California or
Texas hay. Bedwell feeds his horses
California hay. The drug which the
veterinarians claim had worked the
mischief with Bedwell's horse is also
said to be the chief constituent of loco
weed This, of course. is adYanced
merely as possibility, and he horse
man himself is nor pleading Fhc
chance of such an accident