CHAPTER XXXIII 



THE THEODORE MYERS STABLE 



Kaufmann's Methods— Mr Myers' Success— In April 191 5 



Surely there never was a more preposterous system 

 established than that of the Societe d' Encouragement 

 in France, when they engaged Professor Kaufmann. 

 The Austrian Jockey Club had been the first to start 

 the business of examining the saliva of race-horses after 

 a race in the search for traces of drugs which might 

 have been administered to a horse. Kaufmann came 

 to Paris with his theories and his assistants, and was 

 engaged straight away and went about his work. 

 There was no great inquiry as to whether his system 

 was infallible ; he was just launched on his policeman 

 work. Just fancy an Austrian squad, able to make full 

 inquiries about everything going on in France, gomg to 

 all the race meetings, including some adjonnng impor- 

 tant fortified places. This is no charge that he or any 

 of his assistants were spying. But what a change 

 between then and now. What a hoist an Austrian 

 would get at the time of writing (early in 1915) if he 

 tried to nose into everything in France, both on and 

 off a race-course! Things have certainly altered. 

 They would have kissed him then ; they might lynch 



him now. 



It will be scarcely believable to those who do not 

 know that after the appointment of Professor Kauf- 

 mann all the examinations were at first m secret. 

 Eventually, after many complaints, the trainer was 



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