KAUFMANN'S METHODS 



allowed to be present. But to start off there might 

 as well have been no owner and no trainer, for all 

 connected with a horse were kept outside. What an 

 outrage ! Many a good horse too has been ruined 

 while standing there sweating after a race without a 

 rub-down or being rugged up until the wonderful 

 professor or his crew arrived from the weighing 

 enclosure or buffet. TOien the swabbing out was 

 done the horse was turned over to his lad. 



Small wonder that some trainers went almost crazy 

 with rage at the treatment their horses received, and 

 at the time mentioned, when such as Denman, the 

 Carters, the Cunningtons, in fact all trainers, had to 

 cool their heels while their horses cooled and got 

 chilled — well, it was unspeakable. 



Was Kaufmann right in what he was supposed to 

 find out ? Wlio can say ! He had to do something 

 to justify himself and the blame is not so much his as 

 those who countenanced such proceedings. And what 

 ridiculous happenings there were too ! 



Take the case of Bonbon Rose. The pari-mutuel 

 paid out over the race — over Bonbon Rose of course — 

 but when the result of the " test " was known the 

 horse was disqualified and the stake given to the 

 second. M. de Monbel very rightly brought an action 

 to recover the stake. Now in all countries bets follow 

 stakes, so the backers of the second should have been 

 able to " touch." It seems too absurd that there 

 should have been heavy winners over an animal which 

 never got the race. 



Again, why weren't the second and third also ex- 

 amined by the Specialist ? The manner employed 

 was to pick any horse out promiscuously and make a 

 test : no trainer knew when his would be up for it. 



To administer drugs to a horse is " doping." For 



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